Bon Secours-Maryview Nursing Center

While this facility received a decent overall rating, its inspections score is notably more impressive than its overall score. Due to a strong government inspection report this year, it earned one of our better scores in that area with a B. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also was awarded a positive long-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave them a B in that area, which is one of our more favorable scores. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 96.428566 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to minimize negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's third most favorable category was short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B-. Short-term care grades are meaningful for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

This facility's weakest category was nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. It received a lowly F for this category. Even with several decent scores in other areas, this grade is nevertheless disappointing so we felt obligated to point it out. When determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.