Breckinridge Place

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home excelled in our long-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 97.67442 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to its first-rate assessment, this facility also received an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes 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 looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also received excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in that category, with an A-. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final category we scored, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A report card. The nursing grade is based on quite a few subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.