Bridger Rehab and Care Center

With an address in Bozeman, Montana, Bridger Rehab and Care Center is one of a mere two nursing homes in this city. We gave it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road score. In our view, this facility would be a good fit for most people. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. If it was not for this category, this nursing home's overall grade would have been much worse. Our short-term care grades are likely most critical for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Montana in this area with 68.3 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also performed well in inspections. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A-. Our inspection grades are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. Our nursing score assesses a handful of factors, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place averages 2.6 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

Switching gears to our next area, this nursing home really didn't fare well. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is this nursing home's worst category. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.10145 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.