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.

We also wanted to note this nursing home's low-end short-term care grade where it received a lowly F. With our short-term care score, we seek to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Given its weak grade in this area, we were not shocked to learn that this nursing home provides significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our last area, this facility didn't perform well in this category either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home administered the vaccine to just 54.121864 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.