Breckinridge Memorial Nursing Facility

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A. Our nursing score weighs many components, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning patients more often.

Turning to another one of this place's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections turned out to be one of its best category grades. We gave this facility an A. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. We weren't able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having access to complete deficiency data for this facility, it is a challenge to fully evaluate it in terms of this category.

This facility fared well in our short-term care category as well. For this reason, we gave it a grade of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our most dominant grades. With our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last category we scored was long-term care, which is this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Nevertheless, we wouldn't judge this nursing home based solely on a single weak category, since it received several superb scores in other categories. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.