Breckinridge Place

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. There are quite a few datapoints within this category. Most of these criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was given an A+ long-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to be awarded multiple A+ category grades. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. It received one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Our inspection scores are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It does not appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final category, this facility also received an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. This completed an elusive straight A profile. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.