The Bradley Gardens

Although we didn't give this nursing home a good overall score, we actually gave it a strong grade in the area of inspections, where it earned a B. Inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of C in the area. Our nursing rating is largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. Although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this statistic. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning residents at least once a day.

This nursing home's third most favorable category ended up being short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The more important thing is determining what effect this had on quality of care. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

The next category we graded is long-term care, is this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 97.70992 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.