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Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center

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  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center's website

298 Cahal Street,
Hattiesburg MS 39401

(601) 544-5300

96.16% estimated occupancy 1

Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center is a small facility in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Featuring an overall grade of A, we scored this facility to be one of the top three facilities in Hattiesburg. An overall score in this range is a reliable indication of a superb facility. You simply can't do any better than this nursing home. This place also received very consistent ratings in each of the major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • No Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • No Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in Mississippi Awards 2020

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Top Nursing Home in Mississippi Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

This first-rate facility also dominated in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A+. Very few nursing homes fared better in this area. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 95.57522 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. The nursing category is based on several factors, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

In our final category, this nursing home also was awarded a first-rate short-term care grade, with a B+. This wrapped up a very strong profile. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is frequently a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 6.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 7.08% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who had falls resulting in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: F

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 6.64% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of long-term patients who have suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. However, this statistic may also be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 31.19% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents that were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically required. However, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 27.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 3.77% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents exhibiting signs of depression. Some argue this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 96.94% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 13.33% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 17.38% of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term residents that remained mobile levels. Some experts believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center, 17.38% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Scores for Hattiesburg, MS

  • Overall Rating has a grade of A
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-plus

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Nearby Hospitals

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Nearby Dialysis

  • Hattiesburg Clinic Dialysis2.26 miles away5909 Hwy 49 Suite 10 Hattiesburg Mississippi 39402CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 60 (601) 296-2960
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