Bethany at Pacific

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A. Our nursing score is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also want to point out the fact that this nursing home received a dominant score of A in our short-term care area. Our short-term care ratings are important for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an impressive grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

In the final area, this nursing home also was given an impressive long-term care score, with a grade of B+. This finished off an elite profile. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the data points we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.72611 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.