Bella Terra Lombard

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A-. The nursing rating analyzes many factors, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning residents even once per day.

In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this nursing home was given an acceptable long-term care score of B-. Long-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of nursing services. This means a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home vaccinated just 88.86256 percent of its residents, which is well below average. Fortunately, this nursing home 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 figure.