Baptist Memorial Hospital Gt

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility received an A+ inspection rating. This score is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We were not able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many high-end scores, this nursing home was given a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that area. Our short-term care scores are presumably more important for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final category we assessed, this facility was given a very strong grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the facility completed an elite report card. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.