Bertrand Nursing Home

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility also received excellent government inspections recently. We awarded it one of our best grades in that area, with an A. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its top-shelf accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B+. Our short-term care ratings are important for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The next area we looked at was nursing, in which this nursing home received a B. This actually was this nursing home's weakest category. A facility is doing something right when it's weakest grade still rates higher than most nursing homes. The nursing rating is based on many data points, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.