The Bradford Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation

    3050 Baird Rd, Shreveport, LA 71118
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing
    2.5ยท40 reviews

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    2.52ยท(40)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      1.8
    • Staff

      2.4
    • Meals

      2.0
    • Amenities

      2.6
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Skilled, effective physical and occupational therapy
    • Compassionate and dedicated caregivers and nurses
    • Clean, well-maintained interiors and common areas
    • Modern, well-equipped therapy facilities
    • Comfortable resident rooms and beds
    • Small, family-like facility atmosphere
    • Alzheimerโ€™s-friendly environment and supports
    • Engaging activity programming with strong activity leadership
    • Opportunities for residents to personalize rooms
    • Accessible and navigable dining areas
    • Convenient location near family and community
    • Timely meal delivery and presentable tray service
    • Supportive discharge planning that enables home transition
    • Courteous front-desk and administrative interactions

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staff conduct and professionalism
    • Gaps in medication-management and order adherence
    • Delayed responses to call bells and care requests
    • Inconsistent bathing and incontinence-care practices
    • Inconsistent diet planning and restricted-diet compliance
    • Sanitation and environmental maintenance lapses
    • Weak family communication and care-plan coordination
    • Inadequate staffing levels and scheduling reliability
    • Limited follow-through on activity programming
    • Gaps in clinical oversight and escalation to providers
    • Allegations of theft and financial/billing process vulnerabilities

    Summary of reviews

    Reviews reflect a polarized experience: many families describe strong clinical rehabilitation, caring frontline staff, and a small, home-like environment with well-kept therapy spaces; other accounts raise substantial operational concerns that affect perceived quality of care. This pattern suggests the facility is capable of delivering good therapy and successful discharges for some residents, while also demonstrating inconsistency across shifts, units, or teams.

    Care and clinical oversight: Positive feedback emphasizes skilled physical and occupational therapy and successful rehabilitation outcomes that enabled residents to return home. At the same time, reviewers raised concerns about medication management and adherence to physician orders, including dosing and monitoring errors linked to hypoglycemia. Several comments indicate unclear escalation pathways to prescribing clinicians and uneven follow-up when clinical issues arise. Taken together, these items point to variability in clinical processes and gaps in consistent oversight.

    Staff and responsiveness: Many families praised individual caregivers, nurses, and therapists for being compassionate and persistent. However, there are repeated concerns about inconsistent staff professionalism, delayed responses to call bells, and limited attention during high-need periods. Staffing levels and scheduling reliability are described as uneven, which reviewers connect to slower response times and reduced monitoring (for example, turning schedules or vital-sign checks).

    Dining and nutrition: Some reviewers found meals adequate and presentable, and noted timely tray service. Others described inconsistencies in meal quality and menu choices, particularly for residents with restricted diets; reviewers reported inappropriate menu selections for dietary restrictions and an abundance of fried or high-carbohydrate options. This suggests variability in dietary management and communication of special diet needs.

    Activities and therapy programming: The facility receives praise for organized activities, an engaged activity director, and specialty events that promote resident engagement. Yet several reviewers noted limited follow-through, canceled or rescheduled therapy visits, and periods when activity offerings were sparse. This indicates strengths in program concept and leadership but inconsistent delivery.

    Facilities, cleanliness, and maintenance: Many reviews describe a clean, well-maintained environment with pleasant public spaces and the ability for residents to personalize rooms. Conversely, others describe sanitation and environmental maintenance lapsesโ€”trash and room-cleanliness issues, odor concerns in parts of the building, and deferred maintenance items. These mixed observations suggest variability in housekeeping and facilities management practices.

    Management, communication, and financial practices: Positive experiences include courteous admission interactions and helpful discharge planning. Negative feedback centers on poor family communication, unanswered calls, delayed or unfulfilled refunds, and concerns about billing during insurance transitions. There are also serious, isolated allegations concerning theft and financial misconduct; such claims warrant prompt administrative investigation and, where appropriate, regulatory reporting. Reviewers also criticized complaint handling and perceived defensiveness from some administrative staff.

    Overall impression and guidance for families: The facility demonstrates clear strengths in rehabilitation services and some compassionate staff members, but consistent patterns of variability merit careful inquiry before placement. Prospective families should verify medication-safety processes, ask for current staffing ratios and handoff procedures, observe meal preparation and dietary accommodation practices, review housekeeping and maintenance protocols, and request references from recent discharges. If there are specific serious allegations (financial impropriety, safety incidents, or end-of-life concerns), families should request documentation of investigations and remediation steps from facility leadership and consider contacting local oversight agencies for the facilityโ€™s inspection and incident history.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1ยท/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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    Location

    The Bradford Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation is located at 3050 Baird Rd, Shreveport, LA, 71118.

    About The Bradford Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation

    The Bradford Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation sits in Shreveport, Louisiana, and works as a skilled nursing and rehab center with 146 certified beds and an average of 103 residents each day, so folks there get care from licensed nurses available around the clock. A big thing people notice right off is their 2,400 square foot rehab area and how the place keeps up both short-term rehabilitation and long-term nursing care, which is helpful for people needing recovery after surgery, illness, or for those living with more serious ongoing conditions like heart failure, COPD, or diabetes, and folks dealing with memory care needs for dementia or Alzheimer's. Nurses and therapists work together to make personal care plans, offering physical, occupational, and speech therapy, wound care, ventilator care, tracheostomy care, and even palliative and hospice services meant to help those with critical or terminal illnesses.

    Families appreciate the practical details-semi-private and private rooms with modern furnishings, housekeeping, washers and dryers, and safety features like sprinkler systems and handicap-accessible layouts, and residents get three nutritious meals each day in the dining room, which makes the routines go smoother. The Bradford offers outdoor spaces with gazebos that are good for sitting or walking, plus a fitness center, on-site beauty salon and barber, and game room with WiFi and cable TV, so most folks can find ways to fill their time whether they like social events, arts and crafts, education programs, or quiet. There's transportation services for folks needing trips to appointments, and staff help with dressing, bathing, grooming, toileting, and moving around when that's needed. Medical help covers nursing, podiatry, wound and pain management, medication support, and recovery focused programs like joint replacement, post-surgical rehab, stroke recovery, and respiratory therapy.

    The company, Sdb Holdings, owns the place, and Priority Management Group runs it, which is the sort of setup you see with for-profit homes these days. The nurse turnover rate is pretty high at 48.1%, with average nurse hours of 3.41 per resident per day, a thing people sometimes ask about. The Bradford's inspection reports from CMS, as recent as January 2025, show 34 deficiencies. Some of these are for quality of life and care, failure to finish resident care plans, and not reporting suspected abuse or neglect soon enough. It helps to know about these, along with room rates from $5,384 to $7,811 a month, so folks can look up records, visit the place, and make sure they understand how Medicare or Medicaid work if needed.

    All together, the community works on keeping a home-like feeling, offering nurse-supervised care, advanced therapies, and structured programs for seniors who need extra help, and you'll see people working to make days a bit easier and brighter for each resident, keeping up safety and doing their best for comfort and well-being.

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    The Bradford Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 3050 Baird Rd, Shreveport, LA 71118.

    No, The Bradford Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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