Baypointe Rehab Center

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our short-term care grades are probably most critical for those in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded an impressive grade of A- in our long-term care category. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.53271 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility was given a highly favorable nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that area, finishing off one of our better report cards. When determining a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.