Bay Crest Care Center

Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care score this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category, which was the closest thing to a bright spot we can find for this facility. Our short-term care scores are important for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 5.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

This nursing home really excelled in our nursing category, where it earned an C. Few facilities performed better in this area. Nursing scores are primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This place averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving residents more often.

Remarkably, we awarded this facility a grade of C for its long-term care rating, which really isn't too bad of a score. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we look at the facility's personal care services. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we looked at is inspections. This nursing home did not receive positive government inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we had to give it an F in this category. With nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.