Bethesda Home

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility was superb in our long-term care rating. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.08257 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing rating weighs a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The fourth area we assessed was short-term care, where this facility was given an A-. This topped off a very impressive profile. Only a select few facilities received an A- or higher in in each area we assessed. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.