Bay Pointe Nursing Pavilion

To go along with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than the facility's overall grade. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given impressive long-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that category, with a B+. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest grade. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. We gave this facility an D. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we graded is short-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is certainly very disappointing. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.7 percent of its residents returning home.