The Rehab Center at Bristol

Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating

109 Village Circle,
Bristol VA 24201

85.11% estimated occupancy ¹

The Rehab Center at Bristol is an average-sized facility in Bristol, Virginia. Featuring an overall rating of A-, this facility is ranked among the higher-rated facilities we looked at. This is really as good of a nursing home as you're going to find. The best aspect of this facility's strong report card was its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed this well in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. It doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

On the list of its many impressive grades, this facility was awarded a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This facility boosted its score in this area by offering more than 50% more hours of physical therapy than the typical facility. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Virginia in this area with 61.6 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

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Long-term Care Quality

Additionally, this facility also was given favorable long-term care grades this year. In fact, we gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B+. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 57.560978 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we expected. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. Despite having 1.74 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.

Nurse Quality

The next area we looked at is nursing, in which this nursing home was given a B-. While this is its poorest category grade, this is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. There are numerous criteria included in this area. Many of these criteria relate to staffing levels. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in some of the areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally good measures of the quality of nursing care available.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

The Rehab Center at Bristol Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 8.83% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This measures the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 3.6% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term residents which had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 2.65% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic may also be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 13.5% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 21.24% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 4.13% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients showing symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 91.75% of Patients

This is the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 16.97% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 23.72% Percentage of Residents

This is the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 1.22 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 23.72 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 11.68 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In The Rehab Center at Bristol, 75.36% Percentage of Resident

This is the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

Johnston Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.31 miles away16000 Johnston Memorial Drive Abingdon Virginia 24211Voluntary non-profit - Private(276) 258-1000
Russell County HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.87 miles away58 Carroll Street Lebanon Virginia 24266Voluntary non-profit - Private(276) 883-8100

Nearby Dialysis

Fmc Bristol5.64 miles away2530 W. State St Bristol Tennessee 37620Dialysis Stations: 16 (423) 764-4044
Fmc - Abingdon9.67 miles away341 Falls Dr Abingdon Virginia 24210CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (276) 628-3380
Bma - Russell County18.88 miles away150 E Main Street Lebanon Virginia 24266Dialysis Stations: 10 (276) 889-1712