Bridge View Nursing Home

Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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143 10 20th Ave,
Whitestone NY 11357

(718) 961-1212

88.3% estimated occupancy ¹

Bridge View Nursing Home is a senior living facility in Whitestone, New York. This city has a total of 39,150 people. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable score. You could definitely do much worse than this place. Fortunately, this facility didn't have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

To pair with a strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home was awarded strong grades in the category of long-term care as well. Indeed, we awarded it one of our most favorable grades in that area with a area of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 96.99248 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Nurse Quality

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing grades are mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Moving on to our last category, this facility received a decent short-term care grade. Although this isn't quite as good as some of its other scores, this is still not a poor grade. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 2.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Bridge View Nursing Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 9.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 3.04% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a fall which caused major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 2.08% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic could be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 11.61% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 13.28% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This gauges the percentage of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 13.6% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay residents demonstrating signs of depression. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 91.89% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 14.66% Percentage of Patients

This is the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the erosion of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 18.82% Percentage of Residents

This is the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 1.2 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 18.82 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Bridge View Nursing Home, 8.77 Percentage of Patients

This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.