Eliza Bryant Center

Although we gave this place a terrible overall score, we gave it a grade of B for our inspections category. This was due to the facility receiving a quality government inspection report this year. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's second best category was short-term care, but it nevertheless received just a D in that area. This ended up being a relatively poor grade. In our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With its poor grade in this area, we were not shocked to find this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

Another unfortunate development is the F this facility received in the category of long-term care. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category may not provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 54.121864 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

The final area we analyzed was nursing. It received an F in this area, which is an abysmal grade. There are a host of criteria included in this area. Most of the factors relate to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients suffering pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic really pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.