Brian Center Hlth & Rehab

Brian Center Hlth & Rehab is a small facility located in Windsor, North Carolina. This facility is a well below average facility. A grade in this range indicates we found some red flags. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Windsor. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong inspection grade. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category scores

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it an A+ for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our short-term care score and that actually ended up being its next best category. In calculating these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Based on its score in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home a bit in this metric as well, with just 48.7 percent of its residents returning home. This was below average.

We were stunned to find that this facility also excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it an D for that category, which is one of our highest scores. The nursing grade assesses quite a few datapoints, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. Unfortunately, this facility also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than twice the national average in this datapoint.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home really did not perform well here either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as terrible as it gets. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 91.71271 percent of its patients, which is slightly below what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.29 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.