Bayside Care Center

Bayside Care Center is an average-sized nursing home in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Featuring an overall score of B-, this is a solid facility. The facilities in Saint Petersburg received quality grades across the board with a city grade of a B. We were also pleased to discover that this facility received consistently decent grades in all of the other areas we looked at. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category, with an A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection scores are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Additionally, we awarded this facility a grade of B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our better scores. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of offering well above average levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.101265 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. The last datapoint we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 3.83 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this category, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to some of the medical complexity of patients.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This place offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.3 hours per patient on a daily basis. This is well above average. Lastly, our nursing grade also includes some relevant quality-based metrics. While this facility excelled in terms of quantity of nursing care, it fell short in certain metrics that focused on quality. This place's nursing score was pulled down by poor data related to minimizing pressure ulcers.

Our final area is short-term care, where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in that category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. One reason for this nursing home's strong score in this category is that it provides a substantially greater volume of physical therapist hours than the typical facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 39.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.