Complete Care at Berkshire

To go along with a strong overall grade, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our inspection category. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this facility also was given favorable long-term care grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a score of B+. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.26776 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. The nursing grade assesses several components, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we graded is short-term care, in which this facility received a B. This facility didn't turn out to have any identifiable weaknesses. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.