Bella Terra Bloomingdale

This nursing home received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded it an A in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Adding to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was given a top-shelf short-term care grade. We gave them an impressive strong of A- in this area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is more often than not a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. When determining our nursing grades, we analyze both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this area. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.

The last category we graded was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. In forming our long-term care ratings, we assess the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 69.00369 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.