Brightmoor Nursing Center

To go along with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than its overall score. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's second best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing score is largely associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility was awarded its third most favorable category score in the area of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a respectable score. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 85.86956 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we rated was short-term care. This nursing home received a grade of C in this area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.