Bloomfield Living Center

Bloomfield Living Center is a small nursing home in Bloomfield, Missouri. Featuring an overall score of B, this is a fine nursing home. Based on our ratings, this facility has quite a bit going for it. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which we will address in the next section.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this place also earned top notch health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in this category, with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government 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.

Contributing to its profile, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.82609 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. Nursing scores are largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a relatively low total compared with most facilities. Lastly, nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

The last category we rated is short-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Unfortunately, this category hurt the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 42.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.