Bayview Center

This nursing home's overall score was bolstered by the fact that it has earned favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave them a strong score in that area, with a B+. This is a notably better grade than the nursing home's overall score. Our inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's next best category is long-term care. We awarded it a B- in this category. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. Long-term care ratings are vital for individuals requiring non-healthcare services such as personal care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 90.49881 percent of its patients. This is many points lower than what we expected. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Finally, nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The last area we looked at was short-term care, which is this facility's least impressive category. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is obviously very disappointing. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.