Beth Haven Nursing Home

Unfortunately, we did not have any positive things to say about this facility's overall score or its category grades. Its best category was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed badly. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 86.71875 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a few points lower than the national average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing rating is largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place provided only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, this place received an F for its inspection score. When a facility has this bad of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

The final category we graded is short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel score here as well. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is obviously somewhat alarming. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is often a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. With a score this poor in this area, we were not shocked to find that this place was well below average in many staffing metrics we looked at. It supplied substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.