Bertrand Nursing and Rehab Center

To pair with its strong overall performance, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was awarded impressive scores in the area of long-term care as well. Consequently, it received one of our best grades in that category with a area of A-. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.129036 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Our short-term care grades are arguably most meaningful for people needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

The next category we looked at was nursing. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is a fair grade in this area. The nursing grade analyzes several factors, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is not an impressive total. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it scored well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.