Bay Vue Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Bay Vue Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Bradenton, Florida. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded facilities we assessed. This nursing home received one of the most impressive scores that we offer. Not surprisingly, this is actually one of the top three facilities in Bradenton. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's stellar profile is its long-term care grade. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. On top of providing well above average levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.4695 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.32 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provides an incredible 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is far better than what is offered by most facilities. Finally, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

The final category we assessed was short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility an above average grade of B. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 42.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home rather than remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.