Life Care Center of West Bridgewater is a large facility located in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. We gave this nursing home an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top third of all nursing homes in the United States. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is simply as good as it gets. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Life Care Center of West Bridgewater
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are considered to be most important for people in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without having all of the deficiency data, it was difficult to assess this nursing home in the inspections category.
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Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing rating considers a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we looked at is long-term care. We awarded this facility a solid score in this category, with a B-. Although this was not as strong as a few of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 94.75219 percent of its patients, which is higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of West Bridgewater Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 6.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 3.77% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained falls leading to severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 2.05% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. However, this statistic may be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 19.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients that were prescribed antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 18.54% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 2.48% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 91.39% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 16.21% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate decline of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 15.75% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels. Many would argue that mobility is critical to patients physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 1.68 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 15.75 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 11.2 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Life Care Center of West Bridgewater, 71.52% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's generally correlates with better rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
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- Morton HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.76 miles away88 Washington Street Taunton Massachusetts 02780Proprietary(508) 828-7000
- Sturdy Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.33 miles away211 Park Street Attleboro Massachusetts 02703Voluntary non-profit - Other(508) 222-5200
- South Shore HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.56 miles away55 Fogg Road South Weymouth Massachusetts 02190Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 340-8000
- Norwood HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.43 miles away800 Washington Street Norwood Massachusetts 02062Proprietary(781) 769-4000
- Westwood Pembroke Health SystemsPsychiatric 16.13 miles away45 Clapboardtree Street Westwood Massachusetts 02090Proprietary(617) 762-7764
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton IncAcute Care Hospitals 16.87 miles away199 Reedsdale Road Milton Massachusetts 02186Government - Federal(617) 696-4600
Nearby Dialysis
- Brockton Dialysis Center, LLC5.95 miles away375 Westgate Drive Brockton Massachusetts 02301Dialysis Stations: 19 (508) 586-2791
- Brockton Regional Kidney Center6.18 miles away76 Campanelli Industrial Drive Brockton Massachusetts 02301CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (508) 427-5329
- Taunton Regional Dialysis Center7.1 miles awayMill River Place 1 Washington St, Suite 9 Taunton Massachusetts 02780CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (508) 828-5986
- Pure Life Renal of Stoughton, LLC8.27 miles awayMed. Office Bldg Suite m107 907 Sumner Street Stoughton Massachusetts 02072CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (781) 341-8550
- Attleboro Dialysis Center12.37 miles away111 Pleasant St Attleboro Massachusetts 02703Dialysis Stations: 13 (508) 226-0218
- Us Renal Care Foxborough Dialysis12.52 miles away10 Lincoln Rd Suite 101 Foxboro Massachusetts 02035Dialysis Stations: 9 (774) 215-5696
- Dialysis Center of Attleboro LLC13 miles away217 South Main Street Store 7 Attleboro Massachusetts 02703Dialysis Stations: 18 (508) 236-6041
- Davita Weymouth Dialysis13.93 miles away330 Libbey Industrial Parkway Suite 900 East Weymouth Massachusetts 02189CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (781) 331-7700