With two nursing homes in the city, you only have a couple of choices in Brentwood, New York. Despite not having a ton of nursing homes, this city's nursing homes received an excellent city grade of B+. For comparison's sake, we also looked at the facilities in the nearby city of Hempstead, which which also appears to be a decent option. Nevertheless, we found the nursing homes in Brentwood to be in a totally different league than the ones in Hempstead. You can continue reading to learn more about how this city's nursing homes fared in our category grades.
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, most of the nursing homes in Brentwood performed extremely well in the area of inspections. In fact, some of its facilities received almost flawless inspection reports this year. Consequently, we awarded Brentwood one of our best grades in that category with an A+. Inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. The city also really excelled in the category of long-term care, where we gave it an A. In the other categories we looked at, the city earned middle of the pack grades for our short-term care and nursing areas.