Bayshore Pointe Nursing and Rehab Center

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an A. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor dings are not something to panic about.

The second highest category we gave this facility in any area came in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The third area we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B- in this category. In the category of long-term care, we weigh the amount of services offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 97.10145 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Switching gears to our next area, this nursing home received a grade of C for nursing, which is generally a decent grade. Our nursing score weighs a handful of subcategories, however, the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.