Senior Care Health and Rehabilitation Center - Bri

Senior Care Health and Rehabilitation Center - Bri is a large nursing home located in Bridgeport, Texas. With an overall grade of C, this appears to be a solid nursing home. This place has some things going for it. The best part of this facility's profile was its exemplary inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. Its inspection score was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility also was awarded a positive long-term care score. In fact, we awarded them a B+ in that category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.16 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was close to the national average since it had some more complex patients.

This nursing home's second worse score was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average score. Our short-term care scores are likely more meaningful for patients in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. With its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. The last area we considered in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. This place fared better in this area, with 51.9 percent of its patients returning home. This was just about this nursing home's only redeeming quality in this area.

The final category we graded is nursing. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a very poor grade. This is clearly a significant concern. In calculating our nursing grades, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had really poor scores in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents having falls leading to serious injury. This facility was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.