Beth Haven Nursing Home

Although we graded this nursing home extremely poorly overall, it received a somewhat respectable nursing rating this year. We gave it a B- in that category. There are a host of datapoints included in this area. Many of these datapoints are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

We were also stunned to learn that this facility received a somewhat respectable short-term care score in our assessment. We gave it a C in that category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 3.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

Moving on to the category of long-term care, this facility was given a grade of just D in this area. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities offer. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated only 83.730156 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received a terrible score. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. With nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.