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Bethany Senior Living

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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118 Trinity Shores Drive,
Port Lavaca TX 77979

(361) 551-0500

80.46% estimated occupancy ¹

Bethany Senior Living is a large nursing home located in Port Lavaca, Texas. This nursing home received an uninspiring overall grade of D based on the data we looked at. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Port Lavaca. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection rating. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category grades

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Individual

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Awards

Best Nursing Home in Port Lavaca, Texas Awards 2021

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Facility Inspections

Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had too many deficiencies. We weren't able to locate deficiency data for this facility. Without having access to complete deficiency related data for this nursing home, it is a challenge to fully grade the place in terms of this category.

Long-term Care Quality

The second highest area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Our long-term care grade is generally used to score a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this nursing home gave the vaccine to just 57.107845 percent of its patients, which is not a very encouraging sign. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Nurse Quality

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. In calculating a facility's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Short-term Care Quality

Turning to the last category, this facility really didn't fare well here either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as terrible as it gets. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most critical for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With a grade in this range in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in many staffing figures we assess. The facility provided substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Bethany Senior Living Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Bethany Senior Living, 8.51% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Bethany Senior Living, 4.17% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Bethany Senior Living, 0.68% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Bethany Senior Living, 19.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Bethany Senior Living, 26.54% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Bethany Senior Living, 0% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Bethany Senior Living, 75.3% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Bethany Senior Living, 22.04% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Bethany Senior Living, 14.91% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who retained mobility levels. Some believe that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Bethany Senior Living, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to maintaining the physical health of patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Bethany Senior Living, 14.91% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Bethany Senior Living, 17.76% of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Bethany Senior Living, 56.56% of Resident

This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some believe this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.