Beacon Brook Health Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. It doesn't appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other achievements is its elite long-term care score. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a score of A-. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. It goes without saying that we were impressed with our findings for this category.

This nursing home's next best category was short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home was awarded a decent nursing grade of C. Nursing scores are primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is well below average. Finally, while this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this subcategory.