Benson Heights Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but it really excelled in the area of nursing care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, we also would like to point out that this facility was awarded favorable short-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our higher grades in this area, with a grade of B. This proved to be the facility's second best grade. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's next best area is long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility administered the vaccine to 96.763756 percent of its residents, which is a very solid figure. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this ended up not being this nursing home's weakest grade. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded this facility a C in this category. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This means this facility avoided the more significant categories of deficiencies. We didn't find anything on this nursing home's inspection report to be too alarming.