Bay View Rehabilitation Hospital

One of the reasons this is a decent nursing home is that it earned a favorable inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. This place received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in determining our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving patients more often.

This facility received its next best category grade in the area of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. With our long-term care assessment, we analyze the sheer quantity of services provided by a facility, as well as a few qualitative datapoints. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 21.352312 percent of its residents. This is many points lower than average. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to the final category, this facility was given a C for short-term care, which we consider to be a decent rating. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is often a meaningful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.