Bridge View Nursing Home

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. 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, with a strong grade of A- in this area. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 90.72306 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also earned a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it a F in this area. Our nursing grade considers a variety of factors. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home really didn't fare well. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this was this nursing home's weakest area. Our short-term care scores are presumably more critical for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With a score in this range for this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility was below average in two of the key staffing figures we assess. In fact, it provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.