Bayview Nursing Home

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having complete deficiency related data for this facility, it is a challenge to really assess the place in terms of this category.

We also awarded this facility a strong grade in long-term care. This facility earned a grade of B in this area, which is one of our more favorable grades. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility received its third most favorable category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is an acceptable score. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last area we looked at was nursing. This nursing home was given a grade of C in this category. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. While this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this statistic. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients more frequently.