Central Baptist Village

One of the many reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is as good as it gets in this critical category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't 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 impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. We assessed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this category. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning patients even once per day.

Moving on our third category, this nursing home received first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in that category. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home received a high-end short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is often a reliable assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.