Beachwood Post-Acute & Rehab

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care score this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that area. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care score and that actually turned out to be its second highest category. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Unfortunately, with a grade of D in the inspection category, this facility performed relatively poorly in that area. One of the most important factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We would scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This facility had 11 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to patient health or safety. 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.

The next area we rated is nursing, which was a weak spot for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a grade of D for our nursing category. We assessed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in determining our score in this category. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in several of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this metric.