Bywood East Health Care

While we didn't give this facility a good overall score, we actually gave it a strong grade in the area of nursing, where it received a B+. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The second best area we gave this facility in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. In crafting these long-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 89.072845 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be significantly lower than the national average. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next area we looked at is short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of C. In our short-term care category, we endeavor to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

In the final category of inspections, this nursing home had an abysmal showing. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection rating. This happens to be our most heavily weighted category in our grading system. With nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 8 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.