Berkshire Place
455 Douglas Avenue, Providence RI 02908 · (401) 553-8600 · 83.95% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Berkshire Place is a very-large nursing home located in Providence, Rhode Island. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B. A grade of this caliber requires respectable marks in most areas. Even in a city of 12 nursing homes, this nursing home turns out to be a fine choice. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 220 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of being a quality facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in that area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Without having complete deficiency data for this facility, it was difficult to grade the place in the area of inspections.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home was awarded high scores in the category of long-term care as well. As a result, it received one of our most dominant scores in that area with a area of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 94.72183 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we assessed was its hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 1.83 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is middle of the pack in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this category. With our short-term care score, we try to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Rhode Island in this metric with 100 percent of its patients returning home. At most nursing homes, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
This facility's weakest area is nursing, which is the final category we looked at. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of D. There are several factors included in this grade. Most of the factors relate to staffing levels. This nursing home averaged a meager 3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This facility was above average in two of the data points we focus on, with solid scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These data points are usually reliable measures of the quality of nursing care available.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Berkshire Place Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better