Bridgeport Manor

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. The nursing score is based on quite a few factors, many of which are based on nursing hours. 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 facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this facility also received excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with an B+. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this area. Our short-term care grades are presumably most critical for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home was given a C for long-term care, which we consider to be a decent score. In our long-term care score, we analyze the sheer quantity of care provided by a nursing home, along with a series of quality measures. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 98.68073 percent of its residents. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.