Beare Manor

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A-. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our long-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in that category. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 90.29851 percent of its residents. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Unfortunately, this facility only earned a grade of D for its short-term care score, which is not one of our better scores. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With a score this poor for this area, we were not surprised to learn this place was well below average in two of the key staffing figures we focus on. It supplied far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.

Moving on to our fourth area, we gave this nursing home a D for nursing. This is the facility's least impressive category score. In calculating a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of skill of those nurses. This particular facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This number is quite a bit below average. On top of its below average nursing hours, this facility also earned suboptimal scores in many of the quality-based measures we considered in determining our nursing ratings. We found that a higher percentage of this place's patients experienced falls leading to serious injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing rating.