Bridger Rehab and Care Center

One of the reasons this proved to be a quality nursing home is it received a very impressive short-term care score. Short-term care turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this facility an impressive grade of A. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most important for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility received high grades in the area of nursing as well. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Our nursing score is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection rating. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The last area we rated was long-term care. In this category, we gave this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This actually ended up being this facility's least impressive category. In our long-term care category, we look at the sheer quantity of care offered by a facility, as well as a few qualitative data points. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 94.2623 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.