West Bridge Care & Rehabilitation

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection scores are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

The next best area we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this nursing home received just a D in that area. 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. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 88.14815 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

The next area we assessed was nursing, which is a weak spot for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a D in our nursing category. The nursing score analyzes many factors, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.