Bethany Pointe Health Campus

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded a great short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it one of our most favorable grades in that area with a score of A-. In crafting our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. There are a variety of factors within this area. Many of these criteria relate to nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

This facility's worst category was long-term care, which is the final area we scored. We gave it an F in this category. Even with multiple respectable scores in other areas, this score is still of a concern so we felt obligated to make a note of it. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 87.2549 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a few points less than the national average. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.