Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center is a facility in Bay City, Michigan, a city with 67,858 people. With an overall score of A-, this is undoubtedly a very good nursing home. You simply can't do any better than this place. If you scroll down, you can see this facility's category scores, which appear to be just as strong as its overall grade.
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Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
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Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
We also want to emphasize that this nursing home received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is more often than not a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. It earned one of our best grades in that category with an A-. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our next category, this facility was given an excellent long-term care score. We gave it an A- in that area, rounding out a straight A profile. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.58506 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 8.72% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 1.66% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often associated with lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 2.73% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of facilities with worst hygiene practices. More frequent bathing can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 10.5% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for many conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 12.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 1.33% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression. Increased levels of depression may be a sign lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 98.49% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 6.02% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 8.66% of Residents
This is the percentage of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 8.66% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 5.61% of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Bay Shores Senior Care and Rehab Center, 92.46% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements.
Scores for Bay City, MI
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
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- Ascension St Mary's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.26 miles away800 S Washington Avenue Saginaw Michigan 48601Voluntary non-profit - Church(989) 776-8000
- Midmichigan Medical Center-MidlandAcute Care Hospitals 16.98 miles away4000 Wellness Drive Midland Michigan 48670Voluntary non-profit - Other(989) 839-3000
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Bay City Dialysis0.24 miles away3170 Professional Ct Bay City Michigan 48706CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (989) 686-8782
- Bay Area Reg Dialysis - Essexville4.27 miles away1536 W Center Rd Essexville Michigan 48732Dialysis Stations: 24 (989) 894-2810
- Gulch Dialysis LLC8.3 miles away5641 Bay Rd Saginaw Michigan 48604Dialysis Stations: 13 (989) 249-1350
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- Bay Area Regl Dialysis Ctr - Saginaw Riverside12.63 miles away920 N Niagara St Saginaw Michigan 48602CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (989) 921-2170
- Town Center Dialysis - Davita12.85 miles away323 N Michigan Ave Saginaw Michigan 48602CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (989) 791-3624
- Davita - Midland Dialysis15.34 miles away4901 Jefferson Ave Midland Michigan 48640CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (989) 839-7770