The Bluffs

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of B- for inspections. This grade is more respectable than the place's overall score. Our inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We also gave this nursing home a decent grade in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of B-. Our long-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of nursing care. This means a broad range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 55.361595 percent of its residents. This is many points lower than average. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility was awarded its third most favorable category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we analyzed is nursing, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our rating in this area. This nursing home offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. To go along with its low total nursing hours per resident, this place had really bad marks in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents having falls leading to major injury. This nursing home was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.