Diversicare of Bradford Place

While we were not complementary of this place's overall performance, it actually received an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a B+. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B-. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this category. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a low total compared with most other facilities. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this area. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident more often.

Sadly, this facility's next best score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this area, it still fared relatively badly. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Given its score in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 96.019905 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.