Complete Care at Berkshire

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in this area with an A+. Inspection scores are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. Nursing ratings are mostly based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is far below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

This nursing home's third best category ended up being its long-term care grade, where it was given a grade of B-. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.95013 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home was awarded a respectable short-term care grade of B-. In computing these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.