Brady West Rehab & Nursing

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this place also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in this area, with an A. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most facilities in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home received its third highest category score in the category of short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of B- in this area, which is a decent score. Short-term care grades are critical for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home was given an acceptable nursing grade of B-. Our nursing score includes many data points. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, while this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric.