Brentwood Health and Rehabilitation

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home earned nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its first-rate profile, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in the area. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.39759 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The fourth area we graded is short-term care, where this facility was given a B+. This wrapped up a very favorable profile. Few facilities earned a B+ or higher in each of our categories. Short-term care grades are generally used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.