Brentwood Extended Care & Rehab

Even though we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of C for long-term care. Long-term care grades are generally used to measure a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility provided the vaccine to only 74.60317 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's short-term care score is one of its more favorable scores. The nursing home was given a C in this area. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. We weighed the levels of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, although this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this statistic.

The last category we looked at was inspections. This ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. We gave it a D in this category. Since this information is compiled by independent government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our overall grade. Our inspection scores weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. You should be more cautious when considering a nursing home with severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This facility had 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 18 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.