Brackenville Center

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses spend with patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning patients at least once a day.

Among the reasons we graded this facility so well is that it received a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, short-term care ended up being its second highest category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a score of A. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is frequently a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few facilities performed better in this area. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The last category we assessed was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a solid grade in that area, with a grade of C. Even though this is not as high as several of this nursing home's other grades, it is still not a poor grade. Long-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of nursing care. This includes a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.34853 percent of its patients, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.