Kindred Nursing and Healthcare - Bayberry

Kindred Nursing and Healthcare - Bayberry is a facility located in Concord, California, a city with 123,688 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of B. A score of this caliber requires solid marks in most areas. The facilities in Concord received high grades across the board with a B+ city grade, making this one of the better places in California to find a nursing home. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A. Not many nursing homes fared better in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses are with patients and the levels of training of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. It performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded them one of our stronger scores in that category, with a score of B+. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. It fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 52.7 percent of its residents returning home.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care, was this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. This is one of the few weak links in an otherwise strong profile. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Based on its grade in this category, it is surprising to find that this nursing home received good marks in both nursing hours and its vaccination records. Indeed, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This statistic is actually better than the majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.22 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.