Blythe Post Acute

Blythe Post Acute is a small facility located in Blythe, California. We gave this nursing home an F, which is definitely concerning in our grading scheme. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Blythe. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

We were also surprised to learn that this nursing home earned a decent long-term care score in our assessment. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. In the category of long-term care, we weigh the quantity of services provided by a facility, as opposed to more sophisticated services. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an above average total. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.68 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. In addition to its subpar nursing hour totals, this facility received suboptimal scores in several of the quality-based measures we considered in calculating our nursing grades. We found that more of this place's patients suffered falls leading to serious injury. We believe that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this nursing home receiving a poor nursing rating.

This facility's weakest area was short-term care, which is the last area we looked at. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. In forming these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. In this facility's case, we found that it actually offers far less registered nurse hours per resident than the average nursing home. Given its grade in this area, this did not surprise us. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 35.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. This statistic was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.