Bridgepointe Health Campus

To pair with its strong overall performance, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for the area of inspections. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities performed more favorably in this category. Our short-term care grades are considered to be most meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to the third area, this nursing home also received a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 96.21622 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we graded was nursing. In this area, we gave this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. There are numerous subcategories within this category. Most of these factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below average. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.