Tyler's Retreat at Iron Bridge
12001 Iron Bridge Rd, Chester VA 23831 · (804) 706-1023 · 86% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Chester, Virginia, Tyler's Retreat at Iron Bridge is the lone nursing home located in the city. Featuring an overall score of A-, this nursing home is ranked among the higher-graded nursing homes we looked at. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top third of all facilities in the nation. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 90 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to earning a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility with 67.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home has earned near flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this area. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was strong in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Few facilities fared better in this category. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.200005 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.26 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
The final category we rated was nursing. We gave this nursing home an acceptable grade in this category, with a grade of B-. Even though this isn't as dominant as a few of this facility's other grades, it is nevertheless not a terrible score. Nursing ratings are primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, this place was relatively weak in some of the data points we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Tyler's Retreat at Iron Bridge Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a reliable measure of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of long-term care residents who have experienced urinary tract infections. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better