Bowling Green Health & Rehabilitation Center

Although this facility's overall grade was terrible, it actually performed pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with too many deficiencies flagged. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care rating and that actually turned out to be its second best category. Our short-term care ratings are important for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its score in this category, we were not surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Another unfortunate development is the F this facility received in the category of long-term care. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 94.63277 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The final area we analyzed is nursing, in which this nursing home received a very poor grade in this category as well. It received an F for this category, which is definitely somewhat alarming. The nursing grade considers several data points. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. This place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign in light of the fact that so many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing score quite a bit.