Bath Creek Estates

In addition to earning a great overall rating, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We gave it a grade of A for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it was given a favorable long-term care score. In fact, this ended up being its second best category score. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 91.447365 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. The nursing rating weighs a handful of datapoints, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a resident at least once a day.

The final area we rated was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.