Bayview Manor

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. The nursing grade is based on many subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home was given a first-rate grade of A in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grade is often used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Moving on to another of this facility's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of B+. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

The last category we graded was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a B-. This actually is this nursing home's weakest area. This is nevertheless not the end of the world. Long-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's volume of nursing services. This includes a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 93.81443 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a few points less than we anticipated but still a decent figure. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.