Maine Veterans Home - Bangor

With an address in Bangor, Maine, Maine Veterans Home - Bangor is one of six available nursing homes in the city. This facility is ranked among the most elite nursing homes we assessed. This nursing home was given one of the best grades that we offer. Indeed, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as one of the three highest graded nursing homes in Bangor. As you can find below, this place also performed just fine in our category scores. It is hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This first-rate nursing home also dominated in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most important for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This place is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. The facility offered approximately 1.5 times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. This is what we look for when grading a facility in this category. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. It performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 55.7 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Nursing scores are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This particular facility provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the more impressive figures we found. Furthermore, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this facility also performed well in many of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this facility outpaced the national average.

The fourth category we rated was long-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B+. This wrapped up a first-rate report card. Very few nursing homes earned a B+ or higher in every single category. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to providing very favorable levels of nurse staffing, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.94459 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.15 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.