O'neill Healthcare Bay Village

To pair with its decent overall score, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Nursing grades are primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a relatively low total compared to most facilities. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

The third category we graded is long-term care, where this facility was given a grade of C in this area. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 98.47561 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's weakest category is short-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this area. Despite a few acceptable grades in other categories, this grade is still disappointing so we wanted to make a note of it. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is typically a fair assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Based on its score in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.