Bethany Village

On top of receiving an elite overall grade, this facility also earned an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. We weren't able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its first-rate profile, this nursing home also was given an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. In forming these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also was elite in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Very few nursing homes performed better in this category. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we rated is nursing. This nursing home was awarded an impressive nursing rating this year, with a B. Although this wasn't as impressive as some of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of our more impressive grades for that category. When computing our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided with better nursing care.