Beaumont Nursing and Rehabilitation

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that area, which is one of our more favorable scores. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.37888 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home's least impressive area was short-term care, which is the final category we scored. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a D. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, we discovered that this nursing home offers fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.