Bethany Village

To pair with a favorable overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for inspections. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given high scores in the category of long-term care as well. As a result, we gave it one of our strongest grades in that area with a score of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.27119 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a resident more frequently.

The next area we scored was this facility's worst area. However, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- for short-term care. Short-term care grades are often employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.