Beaver County Nursing Home

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with an A-. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. 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 report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a favorable score in long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B in this area, which turns out to be one of our higher grades. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's third most favorable category came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The last category we analyzed was nursing, was this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this area. This is one of the few dings in a very solid report card. The nursing grade analyzes several components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This statistic is significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.