Brandel Manor

This nursing home received a very favorable short-term care rating. Its short-term care score proved to be its best category. We gave this them a grade of B+. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is frequently a meaningful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home's second best category is inspections. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This facility also was given a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it a grade of B in this area, which is one of our more favorable scores. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.94445 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to the final area, this nursing home was given a respectable nursing grade of C. Our nursing rating considers a host of data points. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.