Beacon Hill at Eastgate

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider 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.

This nursing home also received a high-end short-term care score. In fact, this is this facility's second most impressive category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A. Our short-term care scores are likely more meaningful for those needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also was given a impressive long-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this nursing home's third strongest category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the last category, we gave this facility a grade of A for its nursing grade. This topped off a very impressive report card. Our nursing grade is based on many factors, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.