Briarfield Place

To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspection category. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. We were not able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its dominant performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. This facility clearly performed favorably enough in these measures to earn an encouraging grade in this category.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of components, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we graded is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a B+. This rounded out a very favorable profile. Few nursing homes received a B+ or higher in all four categories. Our short-term care scores are likely most important for people in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.