Bedford Specialty Care

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Very few places fared as well in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this facility an A-. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home 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.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our short-term care grades are arguably more meaningful for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last area we rated proved to be this facility's worst category. However, even in its weakest link we still gave it a decent grade of C in long-term care. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.958336 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.