Bayley Place

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home received an A in our long-term care category. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.879555 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. 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 less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. The nursing rating includes quite a few factors, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients more often.

The last area we analyzed is short-term care, where this nursing home received a B. Believe it or not, this ended up being this facility's weakest category. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their worst score still beats out most other facilities. Our short-term care ratings are important for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 4.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.