Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation is in Atlanta, Georgia. This city is among the largest cities in the country with has 900,273 people. Featuring an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. Based on our analysis, this place has some redeeming qualities. The best part of this facility's profile was its stellar inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
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Facility Inspections
To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for its inspection grade. This score is far more impressive than its overall score. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received a strong grade in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this category. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 79.22078 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we were hoping for. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. We gave this facility a score of D. In determining our nursing grades, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the fourth category, we awarded this facility a grade of D in our short-term care category. This was the nursing home's weakest category score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a useful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Considering its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 10.37% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients that developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 3.17% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of long-term care residents who experienced falls leading to major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. However, this statistic can be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 18.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 21.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 5.28% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients exhibiting symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression may be a sign a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 93.36% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 16.65% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate the deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 20.73% Percentage of Residents
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 1.6 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 20.73 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 11.5 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Bonterra Transitional Care & Rehabilitation, 69.89% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Atlanta, GA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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