Bethany Life

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially would like to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it an A in this category. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home fared well in the category of short-term care. As a result, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which is one of our most impressive grades. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This score is frequently a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing rating assesses a handful of subcategories, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we graded is long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of B. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.75622 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.