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 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Our nursing grade is based on a handful of subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving residents even once per day.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in inspections, with a grade of B in that category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

The final area we rated was long-term care. This facility was awarded a B- for this area. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. It does not look like this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.