Bethlehem Woods Nursing and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also performed well in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Very few facilities fared this well in this category. Inspection grades are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its profile, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.88476 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's third highest area came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B-. With our short-term care category, we endeavor to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last area we assessed was nursing, in which this facility received a C. This turned out to be this facility's weakest category. This is still a middle of the pack score. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This place averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. We look at the percentage of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care tends to reduce these problems.