Beadles Nursing Home

On top of faring well overall, this facility received nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it earned one of our best scores in that category with an A+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to note the fact that this facility received a strong grade of A in our long-term care category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.75281 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also received a favorable short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to the fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a very strong nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a B+ in this area, wrapping up one of our better report cards. We analyzed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.