Bermuda Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

While we were not very complementary of this nursing home's overall score, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A. Inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities with severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to the area of long-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in that category. As it turns out, this ended up being its second best grade. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility vaccinated 96.333336 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable total. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Our next category we assessed was short-term care, in which this facility received an F. Our short-term care scores are arguably most important for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Moving on to the last area, this nursing home didn't fare well in this category either. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as terrible as it gets. We looked at the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in computing our score in this area. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.