Brighton Place North

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its inspection grade. This is far more impressive than its overall score. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's better category scores was in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 11.029414 percent of its residents, which is somewhat less than we anticipated. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility was given its next most favorable category score in the area of short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this area, which is a decent grade. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Moving on to the next area, this nursing home was given a grade of C for nursing, which is an acceptable rating. Nursing grades are mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.