Breckinridge Memorial Nursing Facility

We also wanted to note that this nursing home excelled in our nursing rating. We gave them an A+ in this area. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its elite resume, this nursing home also performed well in our short-term care area. In fact, it received a grade of A in that area. Our short-term care grade is generally used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. It does not appear that we have deficiency data for this facility. We wish we had more information about this facility. Without having access to complete information regarding deficiencies, it ended up being a challenge to assess this facility in the inspections category.

Switching gears to our next area, this facility was given a respectable long-term care rating. While this was not nearly as dominant as several of its other category grades, this is truly not a terrible score. In calculating our long-term care grades, we quantify the facility's personal care services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.