Braden River Rehabilitation Center

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this place also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A. Not many facilities performed better in that area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

We also gave this nursing home a score of A- for our long-term care grade. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.176956 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Nursing grades are primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we analyzed is short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a solid grade of C. This turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. Our short-term care scores are probably most critical for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.