Brian Center Health & Rehab/Spruc

Unfortunately, we did not have many positive things to say about this nursing home's overall score or its category grades. This place's best category came in nursing. However, with just a D in this area, it still performed poorly. The nursing grade considers a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home received just a D in that area. As it turns out, this wound up being one of its better features. Our short-term care scores are presumably most important for those requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our long-term care score. This is not one of our better scores. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 77.95276 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be several points less than average. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this nursing home had an abysmal showing. It received an F in our inspection category. When a place has this bad of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.