Bayview Center

Although we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we would like to note its decent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it a relatively respectable grade of B- in that category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an B-. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are with residents as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing 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 an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

This facility was awarded its next most favorable category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this area, which is a decent grade. Our long-term care ratings are critical for individuals seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 91.94313 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a bit below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Switching gears to the final area, this facility was awarded an acceptable short-term care grade of C. Our short-term care grade is typically used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.