Bayview Nursing & Rehab Center

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with an A+. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's higher category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. It actually fared better than most facilities in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next best score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively badly. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next area we graded was nursing. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is a very poor grade. This is certainly a significant disappointment. The nursing category is based on a handful of data points, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.