Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater is one of four nursing homes in Bridgewater, New Jersey. This facility is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we looked at. Being awarded an A+ in our rating scheme requires excellent scores across the board. Indeed, we were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it ahead of the majority of the facilities in Bridgewater, which has a good selection of facilities. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's remarkable report card is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
On the list of its many dominant grades, this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.77876 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Building on its fine resume, this facility also was awarded a superb short-term care score, with a grade of A. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our final area, this nursing home received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in that area, giving this facility straight A's. Our nursing grade includes a variety of subcategories. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 8.19% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who have pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 3.76% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients who had a fall which caused major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 1.14% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term stay residents that suffered from UTI's. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 13.35% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that are given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 16.31% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are given to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 1.18% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients demonstrating symptoms of depression. Increased levels of depression may be an indicator lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 99.03% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 8.04% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 12.51% of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry believe that mobility is vital to patients physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is key to the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 12.51% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 9.43% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center at Bridgewater, 72.91% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Bridgewater, NJ
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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