Breckinridge Place

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. We weighed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this category. This facility provides an incredible 5 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in the state in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these metrics as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided.

An additional reason we graded this facility so highly is that it was given an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as elite as it gets in this area. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of offering elite levels of nurse staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This percentage is also much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In addition, this nursing home also earned excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that category, with an impressive grade of A. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints located in 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 should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our last area, this nursing home also was awarded an excellent short-term care score, with a B+. This topped off a very strong report card. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered much more care from registered nurses than most facilities. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.