Belpre Landing Nursing and Rehabilitation

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we want to emphasize its excellent short-term care score. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this area. In forming our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In addition, this nursing home also earned top notch government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. The nursing rating is based on many datapoints, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home received an acceptable long-term care score of B-. With our long-term care rating, we assess the volume of services provided by a nursing home, as well as a few qualitative measures. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.15385 percent of its residents, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.