Briarcliff Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave it a strong long-term care score. In fact, we gave this facility a score of A-. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.8004 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is well below average in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, we learned that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The final category we looked at is nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Of course, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. In calculating our nursing grades, we assess both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This particular place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This statistic is quite a bit below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.