Bethany Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable short-term care rating. We gave it a B+ in this area. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Lastly, while this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed well in this statistic.

Turning to the category of long-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in this category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home vaccinated 96.12069 percent of its patients, which is a very solid figure. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Looking to our last category of inspections, we gave this facility a just D, which is a relatively poor grade. Our inspection rating is based on the facility's inspections. Since this information is compiled by government inspectors, we place significant weight on it in our overall grades. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. Generally, you should be especially cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This particular facility had 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we also need to point out that this place received large government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This typically suggests that a facility's poor track record has been an issue for more than one year.