Bloomington Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Bloomington Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is located in Bloomington, Indiana. The city has 126,925 people. With an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. Based on our assessment, there are certainly much worse places out there. The best part of this facility's profile is its remarkable inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's second best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Nursing grades are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This particular nursing home provided just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this subcategory.

The next area we assessed is short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a decent grade of C. In forming our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

This facility's worst category is long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.49 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.