Berkley East HealthCare Center

We gave this facility an A for our short-term care grade. This is far more impressive than its overall grade. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is typically a useful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. When computing our nursing grades, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Sadly, this nursing home's third highest category is long-term care. However, with a D in this area, it still fared relatively badly. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 98.4127 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this facility did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in this category. This dragged this nursing home's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. For nursing homes with bad inspection ratings, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular facility had 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines recently of more than $50,000. This generally suggests that inspectors became frustrated after several years of failed health inspections.