Bermuda Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Bermuda Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized facility located in Advance, North Carolina. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of C. A grade of this caliber requires some solid marks. Based on all of the relevant data, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. The best part of this nursing home's profile was is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category grades came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B. It actually outpaced most nursing homes in this category. In computing these short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in North Carolina in this area with 58.5 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Turning to the area of long-term care, this nursing home received just a D in that area. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Switching gears to the fourth area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in our nursing category. This is the nursing home's worst category grade. Our nursing grade consists of quite a few factors, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility was above average in two of the statistics we focus on, with solid scores for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.