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Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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5024 Western Avenue,
South Bend IN 46619

(574) 318-4600

60.68% estimated occupancy 1

Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center is in South Bend, Indiana. Sporting an overall rating of D, this is a relatively poor facility. If you aren't happy with this facility's overall grade, you should be able to find a better option in South Bend. The city has at least 10 other nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Bariatric Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

Grade: B

Although this facility's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually received a very good grade in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better grades. Our inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 11 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Nursing scores are largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed well in this area. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Unfortunately, this facility's third highest score was short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. Short-term care grades are typically used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Given its poor rating in this area, we were not surprised to find this nursing home offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

The last category we assessed was long-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.41935 percent of its residents, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 7.46% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 1.94% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 0.98% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term care patients which suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's could be a sign of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric may be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 10.58% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents which are given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 15.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 9.25% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression may indicate a less hospitable environment.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 96.21% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 17.03% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many in the industry argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 20.78% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents that retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 20.78% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 7.59% of Patients

This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 69.42% of Resident

This metric measures the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements.

Scores for South Bend, IN

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus

Looking for more options? South Bend, Indiana has 9 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Memorial Hospital of South BendAcute Care Hospitals 3.61 miles away615 N Michigan St South Bend Indiana 46601Voluntary non-profit - Private(574) 647-1000
  • Saint Joseph Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.78 miles away5215 Holy Cross Pkwy Mishawaka Indiana 46545Voluntary non-profit - Private(574) 335-5000
  • Elkhart General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.83 miles away600 E Blvd Elkhart Indiana 46514Government - Local(574) 294-2621
  • Community Hospital of Bremen IncCritical Access Hospitals 17 miles away1020 High Rd Bremen Indiana 46506Voluntary non-profit - Private(574) 546-2211

Nearby Dialysis

  • Davita - Dialysis South Bend West3.61 miles away5660 Nimtz Pkwy South Bend Indiana 46628Dialysis Stations: 12 (574) 234-8870
  • Fmc - Nephrology - Blackthorn3.62 miles away6201 Nimtz Parkway South Bend Indiana 46628CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (574) 246-7000
  • Fmc - South Bend Dialysis3.75 miles away320 South Street South Bend Indiana 46601Dialysis Stations: 17 (574) 246-0752
  • Davita - Irish Dialysis5.56 miles away4350 South Ironwood Dr South Bend Indiana 46614Dialysis Stations: 20 (574) 299-4529
  • Fmc - Nephrology - Mishawaka7.44 miles away710 Park Place Mishawaka Indiana 46545CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (574) 273-6776
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  • Liberty Dialysis at Lakeland - Niles10.63 miles away8 Longmeadow Village Dr Niles Michigan 49120CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (269) 684-0116
  • Davita - Elkhart17.27 miles away1401 N Michigan St Elkhart Indiana 46514Dialysis Stations: 12 (574) 262-5295

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=155831