Bethesda Home

On top of being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really fared well in long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.31544 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A-. Few facilities with an overall score in this range performed this well in multiple categories. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. Surprisingly, this nursing home was hit with a category L deficiency, which was unexpected based on its inspection rating. This category of deficiency means inspectors found a widespread deficiency putting patient safety or health in immediate danger. Even a single serious deficiency of this nature should be taken seriously. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. Our nursing grade weighs numerous datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared with most other nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. It scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

The next category we graded was short-term care. This facility received a C for this category. Short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.