Bridge Point Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B for our long-term care rating. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 77.06612 percent of its residents. This is a bit below what we were hoping for. 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 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

We wanted to draw your attention to this place's inspection grade where it received an F. This typically means we found some red flags on its inspections. For facilities that received this poor of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. Finally, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This typically means that a facility's bad performance spanned multiple years.

Turning to the fourth category, this facility really didn't fare well in this category either. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. Short-term care grades are often used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.6 percent of its residents returning home.