Baptist Homes of Western Pennsylvania

Baptist Homes of Western Pennsylvania is a large non-profit facility located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We awarded this facility an overall score of A-, making it ranked among the top fifteen facilities in Pittsburgh. Even in a city offering 31 other nursing homes, this nursing home is appealing. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card is its inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph

One of the many reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facility also received a high-end short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be its second best category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A. In crafting our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. One reason for this place's strong score in this area is it provides more care from registered nurses to its patients than a typical nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. This place fared better than most nursing homes in the country in this area with 51.9 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. We looked at the licensure of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This place provides an incredible 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we scored was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded an above average long-term care rating this year, with a grade of B-. Although this was not quite as impressive as some of its other scores, this is nevertheless a decent rating for that area. In determining our long-term care scores, we size up the assistance with daily living offered to the nursing home's patients. In addition to considering the very solid volume of care provided by aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were impressed by the nursing home's vaccination record. By way of example, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive total. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.