Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our nursing score looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded it one of our stronger scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a highly favorable long-term care grade. Although this isn't as impressive as several of its other category grades, this is still one of the better scores a facility can receive. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 86.111115 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.