Bonne Vie

Bonne Vie is a large facility in Port Arthur, Texas. This nursing home is a relatively poor facility. A score in this range indicates we found a few red flags. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Port Arthur. The city has just one other nursing home. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

While we gave this place a poor overall grade, we gave it a fairly respectable grade in the category of inspections, where we gave it a B-. This was better than its other category grades. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. 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. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

One of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the category of long-term care. This ended up being its second most respectable category. In that area, we awarded this facility a B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. It appears we are missing some of this facility's data for this category. Without complete information regarding long-term care for this facility, it was challenging to fully assess it in the long-term care category.

This facility's third highest area turned out to be short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of C. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.

The next category we scored is nursing, proved to be this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. Our nursing rating assesses quite a few subcategories, most of which are associated with nursing hours. Quantity of nursing care does not appear to be the problem here. Based on the data, it looks like this place provides an above average 4.2 hours per resident on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than most places provide. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.