Bayleigh Chase

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its recent government inspections. We awarded it an A- for that area. Our inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category usually have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It outpaced most nursing homes in this area. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 87.37373 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we assessed was nursing. This nursing home was awarded a strong nursing rating in our assessment, with a B. This nursing home really didn't have any weaknesses. We looked at the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.