Bethel Nursing Home Company

In addition to receiving an elite overall score, this facility also earned an A+ inspection score. This score is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings aren't something to panic about.

This nursing home also received a fine short-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second strongest category score. In that area, this facility received a grade of A. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that returned home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility with 62.6 percent of its residents returning home.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing grade weighs a number of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This place boasts a really impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day, of which a significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. On top of offering high levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the number of its residents suffering falls leading to major injury, this facility performed as well as any facility New York.

The last category we graded was long-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a solid grade of C. This actually proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the favorable volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this facility, we also were pleased by the facility's vaccination record. For example, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 98.958336 percent of its residents, which is an impressive total. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.06 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially lower hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.