Bethany Village

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category scores came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.53846 percent of its residents, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's second lowest score is short-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a well below average grade. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. It looks like this facility was subpar in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. It provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we analyzed is nursing, is this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. This is one of the couple of weak points in a very solid report card. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. On top of its below average nursing hour totals, this facility received suboptimal scores in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this place's residents experienced falls which led to major injury.