Bainbridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
3518 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx NY 10467 · (718) 655-1991 · 97.55% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Bainbridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a large facility in Bronx, New York. Sporting an overall grade of C, this is likely a decent facility. This grade is not too far off the city grade for Bronx, which is a B-. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its remarkable inspection score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 200 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we awarded this facility a B in our long-term care category. This is one of our higher scores. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 94.04935 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.29 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
Another unfortunate development was the F this nursing home was given in the category of short-term care. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. In this place's case, we found that it actually provides far less registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. Given its grade in this category, this did not surprise us. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 23.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. This statistic was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to our last category, this facility really didn't perform very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's poorest area. Our nursing grade is based on many factors, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided only 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This nursing home also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this measure. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bainbridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better