Blue Ridge in Brookview House is located in Gaffney, South Carolina, a city with a total of 40,093 people. Sporting an overall score of B, this appears to be a fine nursing home. You can definitely do much worse than this nursing home. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile was its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section
Blue Ridge in Brookview House
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility performed well in our long-term care category. As a result, we awarded it a grade of A- for that area, which turns out to be one of our most favorable grades. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 89.701 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third area we analyzed is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a decent grade of C. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's worst area was nursing, which is the last category we assessed. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. The nursing rating analyzes many components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Blue Ridge in Brookview House Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 9.53% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 3.47% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffered falls resulting in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 3.18% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic can be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 15.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are used to treat several medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 19.68% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 2.85% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 88.92% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 14.02% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 20.24% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term patients who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 1.69 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 20.24 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 12.31 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Blue Ridge in Brookview House, 73.11% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Cherokee Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.72 miles away1530 N Limestone St Gaffney South Carolina 29340Voluntary non-profit - Private(864) 487-4271
- Spartanburg Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 17.28 miles away101 E Wood St Spartanburg South Carolina 29303Government - Hospital District or Authority(864) 560-6554
- Atrium Health ClevelandAcute Care Hospitals 18.54 miles away201 E Grover St Shelby North Carolina 28150Government - Hospital District or Authority(704) 487-3000
Nearby Dialysis
- Dci Gaffney1.02 miles away405 Tiffany Park Gaffney South Carolina 29341CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (864) 487-1727
- Dialysis Clinic, Inc13.61 miles away108 Creekside Dr Shelby North Carolina 28150Dialysis Stations: 15 (704) 434-2291
- Spartanburg Dialysis, LLC14.67 miles away128 Dillon Dr Spartanburg South Carolina 29307Dialysis Stations: 24 (864) 587-1507
- Dci East Spartanburg14.81 miles away155 Dillon Drive Spartanburg South Carolina 29307Dialysis Stations: 35 (864) 585-4840
- Dci South Shelby15.79 miles away1530 South Lafayette Street Shelby North Carolina 28152Dialysis Stations: 10 (704) 487-0399
- Dci Spartanburg17.73 miles away203 Freemont Avenue Spartanburg South Carolina 29303CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 43 (864) 585-2046
- Wofford Dialysis18.27 miles away8024 White Ave Spartanburg South Carolina 29303Dialysis Stations: 14 (864) 583-4798
- Dci Shelby Inc18.62 miles away1016 N Lafayette Street Shelby North Carolina 28150CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 33 (704) 481-8405