Brighton Place North is in Topeka, Kansas. This nursing home proved to be a decent facility, with an overall grade of B-. Even in a city of 14 nursing homes, this nursing home ought to be a quality selection. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Brighton Place North
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- No Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Radiation Therapy
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Facility Inspections
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
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Short-term Care Quality
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brighton Place North Quality Metrics
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Brighton Place North, 5.15% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care . Falls are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Brighton Place North, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better nursing care reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Brighton Place North, 68.38% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Brighton Place North, 0.83% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Brighton Place North, 53.43% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Brighton Place North, 1.49% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Brighton Place North, 1.84% of Residents
This is the percentage of residents that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Brighton Place North, 0.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Brighton Place North, 1.84% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Scores for Topeka, KS
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Topeka, Kansas has 13 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- University of Kansas Hlth System St Francis CampusAcute Care Hospitals 2.32 miles away1700 Sw 7th Street Topeka Kansas 66606Voluntary non-profit - Church(785) 295-8000
- Stormont Vail HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.46 miles away1500 Sw 10th Avenue Topeka Kansas 66604Voluntary non-profit - Private(785) 354-6121
Nearby Dialysis
- Topeka Dialysis2.43 miles away634 Sw Mulvane #300 Topeka Kansas 66606CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 50 (785) 234-2277
- Dialysis Specialists of Topeka, Inc.4.08 miles away3931 Gage Center Drive Topeka Kansas 66604Dialysis Stations: 12 (785) 228-8978
- Fkc - Topeka East4.43 miles away3408 Se 29th Street Topeka Kansas 66605Dialysis Stations: 13 (785) 266-3087
- Davita Wanamaker Dialysis7.53 miles away3711 Sw Wanamaker Road Topeka Kansas 66610Dialysis Stations: 24 (785) 273-1824