Bernice Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

On top of being a quality facility overall, this place really excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in that category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

We also gave this nursing home a score of A- for our long-term care score. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 91.176476 percent of its residents. This is somewhat below what we expected but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. There are quite a few datapoints included in this category. Most of the factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a D for the area of short-term care, making this the nursing home's least impressive category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. It looks like this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we considered. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.