Brian Center Health & Rehab/He

Brian Center Health & Rehab/He is an average-sized nursing home located in Hertford, North Carolina. With an overall rating of B-, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. You could definitely do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection grade. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 88.888885 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be a bit below what we anticipated but still a decent figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. We gave this facility an D. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. On top of receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic really dragged down this facility's nursing grade significantly.

The next area we looked at was short-term care, was this facility's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that area. This was one of the few dings of an otherwise strong profile. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this place provides fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 38.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.