Bonnie Brae Convalescent Hospital

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with an A-. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also performed favorably in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Very few facilities fared better in this area. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 85.29412 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. 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 only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility received a very good nursing score as well. It earned one of our better scores in that category with an above average grade of F. The nursing rating analyzes quite a few components, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This place averaged only 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's weakest area was short-term care, which is the last category we scored. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category. Despite some respectable scores in other categories, this grade is nevertheless of a concern so we wanted to make sure you are aware. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. With its score in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.