Core of Bedford

This nursing home received an inspection grade which is stronger than its overall grade. Inspection ratings are based on the nursing home's recent health inspections. We awarded this facility a very solid grade of B+ in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home received 11 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores was in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 97.70992 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

Switching gears to the final category, this facility was given a grade of C for short-term care, which we consider to be a decent rating. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.