Bridgeview Post Acute

While we did not have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall grade, it did receive a respectable nursing grade of B-. Our nursing grade weighs numerous factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The second most favorable area we awarded this facility in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a solid assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility's next most favorable area ended up being its long-term care grade, where it received a grade of B-. In forming these long-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's personal care services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Finally, this place keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we assessed was inspections. This facility did not receive positive government inspections in recent years. As a result, we gave it an F here. When a facility has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.