Bell Trace Health and Living Center is one of six nursing homes in Bloomington, Indiana. This facility was given an overall grade of B+, which is very good rating. As a matter of fact, this is better than most of the facilities in Bloomington. The best part of this nursing home's strong profile was its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph
Bell Trace Health and Living Center
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care score. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility was given a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that area with a score of B+. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
The final category we scored was nursing. We awarded this nursing home a decent grade in that category, with a C. While this wasn't as dominant as many of its other grades, it is still a middle of the pack score. We weighed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a low total compared with most facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care offered.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bell Trace Health and Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 7.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term care patients which have pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are an indicator of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 3.93% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls which result in injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 1.87% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of long-term residents which suffered from UTI's. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 13.18% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 21.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 12.89% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 91.48% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 15.74% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 15.7% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 1.46 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 15.7 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 11.29 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Bell Trace Health and Living Center, 73.78% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Bloomington, IN
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Bloomington, Indiana has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Iu Health Bloomington HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.81 miles away601 W Second St Bloomington Indiana 47403Voluntary non-profit - Private(812) 353-9555
- Monroe HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.63 miles away4011 S Monroe Medical Park Blvd Bloomington Indiana 47403Proprietary(812) 825-1111
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Hoosier Hills Dialysis0.34 miles away143 S. Kingston Drive Bloomington Indiana 47408CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (812) 333-1697
- Fmc - Bloomington Monroe3.24 miles away575 South Patterson Drive Bloomington Indiana 47403Dialysis Stations: 24 (812) 333-5600
- Fmc - Spencer16.64 miles away11 Crane Avenue Spencer Indiana 47460Dialysis Stations: 9 (812) 829-3385
- Fmc - Morgan County18.37 miles away2084 Hospital Drive Martinsville Indiana 46151Dialysis Stations: 12 (765) 349-9429