Skyview Care and Rehab at Bridgeport

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this area. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient more frequently.

This facility's next highest category was its long-term care score, where it was given a B-. Our long-term care ratings are more critical for residents requiring more traditional services related to activities of daily living. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 93.75 percent of its patients. This is a few points less than we expected but still a respectable percentage. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we scored is short-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. Naturally, this score hurt the facility's overall grade a bit. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. In this nursing home's case, it looks like it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.