Broadmead

One of the many reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In that category, we awarded this facility an A. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its elite profile, this nursing home also performed well in our short-term care area. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that area. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning our next area, this facility received first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.4127 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we analyzed was nursing. In this area, we gave this facility an above average grade of B. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.