Brentwood Extended Care & Rehab

This nursing home's nursing score outpaced its overall score. We awarded it a B+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, we gave this facility a grade of B in our short-term care category. This is one of our more impressive grades. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is typically a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The third area we graded is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of C. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. We were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 52.884613 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on our final category of inspections, this nursing home received a terrible grade. With an F in the inspection category, this facility's overall grade was pulled down significantly. When a place has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 16 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.