Alliance Health at West Acres

Alliance Health at West Acres is a facility located in Brockton, Massachusetts, a city with 93,766 people. This nursing home proved to be an A+ facility. Receiving an A+ in our grading system takes superb marks across the board. We were impressed enough to rank this facility as one of the top 50 facilities in Massachusetts. One of the best aspects of this facility's remarkable report card is its long-term care score. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 94.366196 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.69 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home also received a virtually flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. This is one of the few places to receive multiple A+'s. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing score is primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home also performed admirably in the short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that category. This finalized a straight A profile. With our short-term care category, we strive to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we looked at. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed better than most facilities in this area with 55.2 percent of its patients returning home.