Bridge View Nursing Home

Bridge View Nursing Home is a large nursing home located in Whitestone, New York. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of D. A grade of this caliber typically indicates a few concerning datapoints. At the end of the day, we would struggle to recommend this place. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection score. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent grade in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a list of deficiencies flagged. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's long-term care grade is one of its higher features. The nursing home was given a grade of B- in this category. Our long-term care grades are based in part on a facility's amount of nursing services. This includes a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 93.95973 percent of its residents for pneumonia. The last statistic we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 1.9 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is not too bad.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. There are several subcategories included in this category. Most of the factors relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided only 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. On top of receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients suffering pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really dragged down this facility's nursing rating significantly.

The next area we looked at was short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area, which is a rock bottom grade. With our short-term care grade, we try to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. In this place's case, we found that it provides far less registered nurse hours per patient than a typical nursing home. Given its grade in this area, this did not surprise us. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 17.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.