Bridgewater Healthcare Center

Even though we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it an A for our nursing rating. This is far better than the facility's overall score. When calculating our nursing grades, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, we awarded this facility a grade of B in our short-term care category. This is one of our more impressive scores. With our short-term care category, we try to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Among this place's worst category grades was an F for its inspection score. More often than not, this indicates we found red flags on the nursing home's inspection reports. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also want to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines in recent years amounting to over $100,000. This typically signifies that a nursing home's bad track record spanned multiple years.

Turning to our fourth category, this nursing home did not fare well in this category either. With a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 55.785126 percent of its residents. This is many points lower than the national average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.