Brewster Village

With an address in Appleton, Wisconsin, Brewster Village is one of six available nursing homes in this area. Featuring an overall grade of A, this facility is among the best nursing homes we looked at. In fact, this turned out to be one of the three best facilities in the city. Keep reading to see this facility's category grades, which also impressed us. You just can't do much better than a straight A profile.

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. There are a host of factors included in this area. Most of these criteria are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Out of this total, nearly one quarter of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most highly trained levels of nurses. Lastly, this facility also excelled in several quality measures we assessed. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is often an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by offering better nursing care and having a protocol of moving patients even once per day.

This nursing home also was given a top-shelf short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this nursing home's third strongest category score. In that area, this facility received a grade of A-. Our short-term care grades are crucial for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. It outperformed most facilities in this area with 50.7 percent of its patients returning home.

The last area we assessed is long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of A-. This finished off a very favorable report card. Very few nursing homes earned an A- or higher in every single category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.68701 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.33 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.