Bedford Care Center of Mendenhall

    925 Mangum Ave, Mendenhall, MS, 39114
    4.3 · 6 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousCurrent/former resident
    5.0

    Resident praises staff, food, cleanliness

    I'm a resident - the professional, caring staff truly love their jobs; the facility is spotless, the food is excellent, activities are engaging, and it's conveniently close to the hospital.

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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

    4.33 · 6 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      4.3
    • Staff

      5.0
    • Meals

      5.0
    • Amenities

      4.3
    • Value

      4.3

    Pros

    • Clean facility
    • Professional staff
    • Quality food
    • Activities offered
    • Convenient location near hospital
    • Friendly environment
    • Staff who love their jobs
    • Amazing staff

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment: The reviews present a uniformly positive impression of Bedford Care Center of Mendenhall. Reviewers repeatedly emphasize the facility's cleanliness, the professionalism and warmth of the staff, the quality of the dining, and the availability of activities. The proximity to a hospital is called out as a convenient feature. No specific complaints or negative experiences are reported in the provided summaries.

    Care quality and staff: The strongest and most consistent theme is the staff. Multiple summaries describe staff as professional, friendly, amazing, and as people who genuinely love their jobs. This combination of professionalism and apparent personal investment suggests a caregiving culture where staff engagement and resident rapport are strengths. From these comments one can infer that interpersonal care—how staff interact with residents and families—is a notable positive aspect. The reviews do not, however, provide granular details about clinical care, response times to calls, medication management, or staff-to-resident ratios, so evaluation of those operational care dimensions cannot be made from this data.

    Facilities and location: Cleanliness is highlighted explicitly, indicating the physical environment is well-maintained and likely meets expectations for hygiene and presentation. The facility's convenient location near a hospital is a pragmatic benefit for families and for residents who may require more immediate access to medical services. Together, these points suggest a facility that is both pleasant in appearance and well-situated for medical needs or family visits.

    Dining and activities: "Quality food" and the presence of activities are both mentioned, implying that residents have access to satisfactory meals and engagement opportunities. These elements contribute directly to residents' quality of life: good food supports daily satisfaction and nutrition, while activities support socialization and mental stimulation. The summaries do not specify the variety or frequency of activities, dietary accommodations, or food service details, only that these components are present and perceived positively.

    Management, patterns, and limitations: The provided summaries are uniformly favorable and focused on broad, high-level attributes. There are no explicit remarks about management practices, paperwork, cost, transparency, safety incidents, turnover, or any operational challenges. This absence of negative commentary can indicate genuinely positive experiences, but it also highlights a limitation: the dataset is small and composed of short, highly positive statements. Because of the brevity and positivity, potential areas of concern may simply be unreported here rather than absent in reality.

    Conclusion and implications for prospective residents/families: Based on these reviews, Bedford Care Center of Mendenhall appears to excel at creating a clean, friendly environment staffed by engaged professionals, with good dining and activity offerings and a strategically convenient location near a hospital. Those are meaningful strengths for many prospective residents. At the same time, because the summaries lack detail on clinical operations, staffing levels, safety, costs, and other logistical matters, anyone considering the facility should use these positive comments as an encouraging first impression but follow up with targeted questions and an in-person tour to verify clinical care quality, specific activity schedules, dietary accommodations, staffing patterns, and contract/financial terms.

    Location

    Map showing location of Bedford Care Center of Mendenhall

    About Bedford Care Center of Mendenhall

    Bedford Care Center of Mendenhall sits right next to Simpson General Hospital in Mendenhall, Mississippi, and serves as the only skilled nursing home in town, offering 60 certified beds and usually caring for about 55 residents each day, and though the building has big private rooms and several comfortable common areas like a day room and a spacious dining room with many meal choices, there have been some concerns marked in inspection reports-including 23 total deficiencies and 4 related to infection control, plus issues like not honoring residents' right to self-determination, problems with care planning, and not fully carrying out infection prevention programs, each noted as having potential for harm even if not causing harm so far, and the nurse turnover rate sits high at 68.3% compared to the state's 46.4%, but nurse staffing levels come in above average at 4.37 hours per resident per day. The center's run by Hattiesburg Medical Park Management Corporation as of December 2001 with ownership details showing Bedford Health Properties, LLC in charge, and offering skilled nursing and intermediate care for very frail people, residents have access to 24-hour nurse supervision and therapy programs on-site, and the center also has a van for transportation, outdoor areas with nice landscaping, a porch and patio, and organized activities meant to help residents connect with each other and stay active. The center has the Bronze - Commitment to Quality Award from the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living from back in 2019, and it meets the federal standards needed to be reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid, being set up to safely store and give out needed medicines, and while some care efforts have fallen short of what's required, Bedford Care Center of Mendenhall still tries to focus on resident comfort and satisfaction, offering both skilled nursing for complex care needs and short-term rehab for those moving between hospital and home.

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