Brantwood Nursing and Rehab Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's second best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. There are a variety of subcategories included in this grade. Most of the subcategories relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is a very low figure. Finally, although this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area.

This nursing home's third highest area is its short-term care score, where it received a grade of C. Short-term care grades are generally employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on to the next area, this facility was awarded an acceptable long-term care score of C. With our long-term care category, we focus more on the volume of care offered by a facility, as well as a series of quality metrics. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit concerned this facility provided the vaccine to a relatively low 89.74359 percent of its residents. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.