Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home in Lexington, Kentucky. With an overall score of B-, this is a decent facility. Based on all of the relevant data, there are certainly much worse places out there. The best part of this nursing home's profile is its stellar inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Oncology Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also was given a positive grade in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B+ in that area. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 88.78505 percent of its residents, which is a bit less than we were hoping for. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's worst area was short-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. In computing these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. 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. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care grade.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 9.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 3.84% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are routinely linked to poor nursing care. More supervision can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 2.74% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are often the result of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric may be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 15.92% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 28.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 8.85% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 90.04% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 15.42% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Many would argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 20.17% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of patients that maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 1.59 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 20.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 13.78 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Bluegrass Care & Rehabilitation Center, 72.12% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Lexington, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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