Bon Secours-Maryview Nursing C

Bon Secours-Maryview Nursing C is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Suffolk, Virginia. With an overall rating of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. You could definitely do worse than this nursing home. This nursing home did not fare well in every category we looked at, but it didn't receive any terrible grades either. More information about these categories is available below.

This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. If it wasn't for this area, this nursing home's overall grade would have been much worse. In our short-term care rating, we strive to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Virginia in this area with 71.3 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This facility's second best category grade came in the area of government inspections. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this category. Inspection grades are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. The nursing score is based on a handful of factors, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides an impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is among the higher totals in Virginia. Finally, we baked a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This place fared poorly in two of the major metrics we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's weakest category was long-term care, which is the final area we scored. In this area, we gave this facility a grade of D. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 95.71429 percent of its patients, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.5 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.