Bayview Manor

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing grade. There are a variety of factors within this category. Most of the datapoints reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a resident at least once a day.

This facility was given strong grades in the category of short-term care as well. Consequently, it received one of our most dominant grades in that category with a area of A. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is often a solid measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Furthermore, this facility also earned impressive inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with a B. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The last category we scored was long-term care, in which this facility received a C. This turned out to be this facility's worst area. This is still not a bad grade. With our long-term care assessment, we analyze the quantity of care provided by a facility, along with some qualitative data points. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 83.69565 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly below the national average. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.