Bridgewater Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. There are a variety of subcategories within this grade. Most of these datapoints reflect staffing levels. This facility provided 0.5 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 generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this facility received elite marks in the area of long-term care. For this reason, it was given one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on our next area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its short-term care grade. This is a dominant score. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more meaningful for individuals requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Wrapping up its excellent profile, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of B+ for that category. Our inspection scores are tied to several data points located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It does not look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.