Beacon Ridge Senior Mental Health

While we gave this facility a poor overall rating, we actually awarded it a fairly respectable grade in the area of inspections, where it received a B-. This was quite a bit better than its other categories. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a relatively low total compared with most facilities. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The third area we graded is long-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B- in this area. Long-term care grades are used to grade a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. It does not look like this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we analyzed is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.