The Bradford Rehabilitation Center

The Bradford Rehabilitation Center is just one of 21 possibilities in Shreveport, Louisiana. This nursing home was given an overall grade of F. We ranked this as one of the bottom three facilities in Shreveport. With countless other nursing homes in the city, you may simply want to look elsewhere. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we gave this place a terrible overall score, we gave it a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. This is the result of the nursing home receiving a decent inspection report this year. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had too many severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility also didn't perform too badly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that area, which happens to be another one of its higher grades. In computing our long-term care scores, we scrutinize the personal care offered to the nursing home's patients. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less impressive than its other scores in the long-term care area.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this facility provides significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 34.3 percent of its patients returning home.

The final category we scored is nursing. This facility received a poor grade of F in this category. Nursing scores are mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular place provided a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This number is well below average. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at about 150 percent of the national average in both of these data points. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.