Bridgecrest Rehabilitation Suites

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's second most favorable category was long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In the area of long-term care, we analyze the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more sophisticated services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.22064 percent of its patients. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The third category we assessed is short-term care, where this facility received a grade of C in this category. With our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home did not fare well. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's poorest grade. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.