Bonne Vie

While we were not high on this facility overall, we gave it a B- for our inspections rating. This score is more respectable than this facility's overall score. Inspection ratings are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

One of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the category of long-term care. This wound up being its second most favorable category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. With our long-term care grade, we weigh the amount of care offered by a facility, along with a series of qualitative statistics. We'd need to do a bit more digging into this facility before opining further on this category as it appears we are missing a few datapoints for long-term care.

The next area we assessed is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a decent grade of C. Our short-term care grades are arguably most meaningful for people needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The question is whether this also impacted quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Switching gears to the fourth area, we gave this facility a D in the area of nursing. This is the nursing home's worst category score. The nursing rating weighs several data points. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing grades. Specifically, we look at the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.