Bentleys Extended Care

We want to point out that this facility received favorable marks in the area of short-term care this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a B+. This proved to be the nursing home's top score and helped its profile overall. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is typically a fair measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B-. There are a variety of criteria included in this category. Many of these subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

We also found that this facility has earned favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we awarded it a B- in this category. This is better than many facilities in this category. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this nursing home was given a grade of C for long-term care, which we consider to be a decent grade. In computing our long-term care grades, we quantify the facility's personal care services. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.68787 percent of its patients, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.