Brio of Johnston

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed this well in this area. Inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't 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.

To complement its impressive performance in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A- for its long-term care grade. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. This facility clearly fared well enough in these measures to earn an encouraging grade in this area.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. The nursing grade includes a handful of datapoints, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving residents more frequently.

In our final area, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for our short-term care grade. This rounded out a very strong profile. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.