Brentwood Center for Health & Rehabilitation

Brentwood Center for Health & Rehabilitation is an average-sized nursing home located in Yarmouth, Maine. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B. A grade in this range requires respectable marks in most areas. Based on our ratings, this nursing home looks like a good fit for most people. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its strong overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. The nursing grade assesses many factors, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

The third category we assessed was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B-. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is generally a reliable assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 43.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Turning to the next category, this facility was awarded a C for long-term care, which is a decent score. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated only 87.866104 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.06 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a substantially lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.