Breckinridge Memorial Nursing Facility

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Our nursing score assesses a handful of datapoints, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country 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 moving patients more frequently.

Among its many dominant grades, this facility was given a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A- in that category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. We were not able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without the deficiency data for this facility, it ended up being a challenge to grade it in the area of inspections.

The next category we rated turned out to be this facility's poorest area. However, even in its weakest link we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- in long-term care. In the category of long-term care, we assess the quantity of care offered by a facility, rather than more sophisticated services. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.