Bay Pointe Nursing Pavilion

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received positive long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our higher grades in this area, with a B. This proved to be the nursing home's second highest grade. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third category we assessed was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a decent grade of B-. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last area we assessed is nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this area. Our nursing score assesses many subcategories, but the main one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the number of hours of care provided.