Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility earned an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can offer a facility. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another reason we rated this facility so favorably is that it was given an A+ long-term care grade. This is flat out as strong as it gets in this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.54955 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the last category we analyzed, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility topped off a straight A profile. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most important for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.