What Verdica's 850 score means for BETHLEHEM WOODS NURSING AND REHABILITATION
An 850 composite score places BETHLEHEM WOODS NURSING AND REHABILITATION in Verdica's "excellent" band (800–850), the highest performance tier. This score reflects consistently strong performance across three regulatory dimensions tracked by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): inspection and deficiency findings, quality measures, and enforcement history.
For a nursing and rehabilitation facility, an excellent-band score indicates that the provider has demonstrated compliance with federal and state standards as measured through unannounced inspections, reported quality metrics, and regulatory action records. A reader should understand this as a signal that, based on publicly available CMS data, the facility has not accumulated significant violations, has maintained acceptable quality reporting, and has not faced major enforcement actions in the period covered by these metrics.
However, this score reflects only the dimensions Verdica tracks—chiefly regulatory compliance and quality reporting. It does not include customer experience data; Verdica notes that no independent customer reviews are indexed for this entity yet. Business decision-makers and consumers should treat this score as one input among several, not as a complete picture of the facility's operations or reputation.
How the sub-scores break down
Inspection & Deficiencies (850): This sub-score reflects findings from CMS's unannounced survey inspections, which occur at least annually at nursing facilities. Inspectors assess compliance with federal Conditions of Participation (CoPs) across areas such as staffing, infection control, medication management, resident rights, and environmental safety. A score of 850 in this dimension indicates few or no substantive deficiencies were cited during recent inspection cycles. Lower scores in this category would indicate more frequent or serious violations.
Quality Measures (850): CMS requires nursing facilities to report standardized quality measures, including rates of hospital readmissions, potentially preventable infections, medication use, and resident functional and cognitive assessments (via the Minimum Data Set). This sub-score reflects how the facility's reported metrics compare to established benchmarks. A top score suggests the facility's quality indicators fall within acceptable or above-average ranges. Poor quality measure scores would flag issues such as high incident rates or unusual patterns in reported outcomes.
Enforcement History (850): This dimension tracks regulatory actions taken against the provider, including civil monetary penalties, immediate jeopardy citations, license restrictions, or repeat deficiency patterns. An 850 score means the facility has not accumulated a significant enforcement record during the lookback period. Facilities with lower enforcement scores would have a documented history of regulatory action or sanction.
What regulators in IN track for healthcare providers
CMS, in partnership with Indiana's State Survey Agency, conducts oversight of nursing facilities through triennial comprehensive surveys and complaint-triggered inspections. Surveyors evaluate compliance with CoPs across 16 major domains, including administration, quality assurance, infection prevention, staffing ratios, resident care planning, and safety standards.
Quality measures are submitted via the Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reporting System (CASPER) and tracked in the CMS nursing home care compare database. These measures include long-stay resident outcomes (pain management, pressure ulcers, antipsychotic use) and short-stay outcomes (readmission and discharge planning).
Enforcement mechanisms include citation issuance (ranging from minor to immediate jeopardy), financial penalties, mandatory corrective action plans, and, in cases of severe ongoing noncompliance, license revocation. The scoring framework moves downward when facilities accumulate deficiencies, repeat violations, or fail to remediate cited issues within required timeframes.
Bottom line
BETHLEHEM WOODS NURSING AND REHABILITATION demonstrates strong regulatory performance based on available CMS inspection and quality data. Anyone considering this facility for services or partnership should confirm the recency of the underlying data, request specific quality measure details directly from the facility, and seek current customer or staff feedback to round out the regulatory picture.