Bloomfield Living Center

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing rating features several subcategories. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

The third area we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home received a favorable long-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in the category. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 84.61538 percent of its residents, which is a few points lower than we anticipated. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In our last category, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for its short-term care grade. This completed a first-rate profile. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.