The Bridges of Milwaukee Rehab and Care Center

The Bridges of Milwaukee Rehab and Care Center is a large nursing home located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This facility was given an F, which is really a bottom of the barrel score in our grading scheme. If you aren't happy with this nursing home, you should be able to find another option in Milwaukee, as the city has more than 25 nursing homes. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is discussed in the next section.

This facility didn't receive any favorable grades. Its most concerning grade may be its inspection grade, where we gave it an F. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 20 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

This facility ended up receiving a an abysmal score in our short-term care category. It was given an F in this area. In our short-term care score, we attempt to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 36.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. There are a variety of factors within this category. Many of the subcategories relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided only 1.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Unfortunately, this place also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this measure. This is a bad sign in light of the fact that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.

The next category we assessed was long-term care, in which this facility received a bottom of the barrel grade in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is obviously very concerning. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 92.8125 percent of its patients, which is slightly below what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this nursing home was not as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. While it had 1.83 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not bad due to it having some more complicated patients.