Brighton Care Center

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Nursing scores are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility has earned near flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. Our inspection ratings are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

In addition, this nursing home also was awarded favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a score of B+. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last area we scored is short-term care. We gave this nursing home a solid grade in that category, with a grade of B-. Although this isn't as dominant as several of this facility's other grades, it is still not the end of the world. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 3.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.