Brentwood Health Care Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received a far better grade for short-term care than its overall score. It received one of our best scores in that category with a score of A. Our short-term care ratings are vital for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility also received favorable health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. This is better than the facility's overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This facility was hit with 10 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next area we rated was long-term care, is this facility's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. This really is one of just a couple of weak points on a strong report card. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.66667 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.