Belpre Landing Nursing and Rehabilitation

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far better than its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

We also gave this nursing home an impressive score in short-term care. This facility received a grade of B in this category, which happens to be one of our more impressive grades. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a favorable long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of B in that area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we graded is nursing, turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that category. This is one of just a few weak points of a strong report card. There are a host of factors within this grade. Most of these factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.