Briarwood Healthcare Center

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection grades are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not 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.

On the list of its many impressive grades, this facility was given first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A in that area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 90.69768 percent of its residents. This is a bit lower than we anticipated. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also received a top-shelf short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this facility's third most impressive category score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. With our short-term care rating, we strive to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

The next category we looked at was nursing. We awarded this nursing home an acceptable score in that category, with a grade of B-. Even though this wasn't as dominant as some of this facility's other grades, it is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Our nursing grade is based on a handful of data points, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Finally, we also factored some quality measures into our nursing scores. This place was relatively weak in a few of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally decent measures of the quality of nursing care offered.