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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home also was given a positive grade in our long-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B+ in that area. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.63636 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home ended up receiving a an abysmal score in our short-term care category. It was given an F in this category. Our short-term care ratings are important for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its poor grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find this nursing home provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we scored was nursing, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is certainly a major disappointment. Our nursing rating is based on many subcategories, but the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.