Baptist Health Medical Center - Nlr

One of the reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its superb resume, this facility also performed well in our short-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a score of A for the category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also was dominant in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Not many facilities performed better in this category. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were not able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the final category, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our nursing rating. This topped off a very impressive profile. The nursing score weighs quite a few factors, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.