Bear Creek Senior Living

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this nursing home has earned excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. We were not able to locate information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care rating. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This place is head and heels above most nursing homes in this area.

The next area we assessed was short-term care. Adding to its dominant resume, this facility also excelled in this category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A for that category. In our short-term care category, we seek to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The fourth area we scored is nursing, where this facility received an A-. This completed a very impressive profile. Few nursing homes earned an A- or higher in each of our categories. Our nursing score includes a handful of data points, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.