Briarwood Health Care Center

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Contributing to its dominant resume, this facility also performed well in our short-term care area. In fact, it received a grade of A- for the area. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also wanted to note the fact that this facility received a superb score of A- in our long-term care area. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.0297 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Building on its impressive profile, this facility also performed a high level in inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with a B+. Inspection scores are based on many data points found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.