Bedford Hills Center is a senior living facility located in Bedford, New Hampshire, which has 21,203 people. With an overall grade of B+, this nursing home ended up being one of the top 50 nursing homes in New Hampshire. Based on the data we reviewed, you can do much worse than this facility. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Bedford Hills Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an A in this category. Our nursing grade includes a host of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that 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 relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our better grades in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 86.07595 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we were hoping for. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we assessed is short-term care. We gave this facility an acceptable score in that area, with a B-. While this isn't as strong as several of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is more often than not a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bedford Hills Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Bedford Hills Center, 6.48% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric indicates the percent of long-term residents that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Bedford Hills Center, 5.13% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision. Closer supervision limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Bedford Hills Center, 2.56% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Bedford Hills Center, 16.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used to treat several conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Bedford Hills Center, 14.9% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Bedford Hills Center, 6.23% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. Many argue that this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Bedford Hills Center, 94.94% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Bedford Hills Center, 18.44% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Bedford Hills Center, 18.81% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Bedford Hills Center, 1.55 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Bedford Hills Center, 18.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Bedford Hills Center, 13.79 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Bedford Hills Center, 81.87% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Catholic Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.12 miles away100 Mcgregor Street Manchester New Hampshire 03102Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 668-3545
- Elliot HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.98 miles away1 Elliot Way Manchester New Hampshire 03103Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 669-5300
- Parkland Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.38 miles away1 Parkland Drive Derry New Hampshire 03038Proprietary(603) 421-2100
- Southern Nh Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 14.53 miles away8 Prospect Street Nashua New Hampshire 03060Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 577-2000
- St Joseph HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.88 miles away172 Kinsley St Nashua New Hampshire 03060Voluntary non-profit - Other(603) 882-3000
- New Hampshire Hosp-Psych UnitPsychiatric 16.33 miles away36 Clinton Street Concord New Hampshire 03301Government - State(603) 271-5300
- Concord HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.71 miles away250 Pleasant St Concord New Hampshire 03301Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 225-2711
Nearby Dialysis
- Bedford Dialysis Davita0.98 miles away15 Constitution Dr, Suite 1c Bedford New Hampshire 03110Dialysis Stations: 13 (603) 471-1904
- Davita Manchester Dialysis2.52 miles away903 Hanover Street Manchester New Hampshire 03104Dialysis Stations: 10 (603) 621-4903
- Manchester Kidney Center3.11 miles away1750 Elm Street Suite 100 Manchester New Hampshire 03103CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (603) 647-4042
- Fresenius Medical Care Londonderry6.8 miles away1f Common Drive Londonderry New Hampshire 03053Dialysis Stations: 13 (603) 434-4517
- Davita Derry Dialysis6.8 miles away1 Action Blvd suite2 Londonderry New Hampshire 03053Dialysis Stations: 13 (603) 421-9724
- Fresenius Medical Care Southern Nh Dialysis Center11.89 miles away586 Nashua St Unit #20 Milford New Hampshire 03055Dialysis Stations: 13 (603) 672-6678
- Bio-Medical Applications of New Hampshire, Inc.12.6 miles away20 Cotton Road Suite 200 Nashua New Hampshire 03063Dialysis Stations: 21 (603) 577-4547
- Davita Nashua Dialysis14.43 miles away38 Tyler Street Nashua New Hampshire 03061CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (603) 598-1665