Life Care Center of Bridgeton
12145 Bridgeton Square Dr, Bridgeton MO 63044 · (314) 298-7444 · 89.12% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Life Care Center of Bridgeton is one of just three available facilities located in Bridgeton, Missouri. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel nursing home. Bridgeton received a city grade of B-, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss short-term care in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 91 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall score, we gave it a grade of B- for short-term care. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is more often than not a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its patients substantially more physical therapist hours than most other facilities. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This place performed better than most facilities in this metric with 53 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home didn't perform horribly in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category. Other categories were the source of its abysmal overall grade. We would argue that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to present an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Nurse Quality
This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. There are a number of datapoints within this grade. Most of these criteria reflect staffing levels. This place offered just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place also had terrible scores in several of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we scored was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated a relatively low 68.36158 percent of its residents against pneumonia. We were stunned with the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 3.88 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is more than twice the national average. This is definitely a concerning figure.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Bridgeton Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better