Bayleigh Chase

In addition to being a first-rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an elite grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Short-term care grades are often employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the third category, this facility also received a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 92.696625 percent of its residents. This is a bit lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we graded is this facility's weakest area. However, even its weakest link would likely be a highlight for most nursing homes. In fact, we gave it a favorable grade of B in nursing. Nursing grades are largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning patients even once per day.