Broadway House for Continuing

We also wanted to point out that this facility excelled in our nursing score. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. There are several datapoints included in this grade. Many of the factors are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

An additional reason we graded this nursing home so favorably is that it was awarded an A+ long-term care score. This is just about as elite as it gets in this area. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 97.99197 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Continuing with its amazing performance, this facility also earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on its recent government inspection reports. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The final category we rated was short-term care, where this nursing home received an A. This completed a first-rate report card. Few nursing homes earned an A- or higher in each of our categories. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This score is typically a reliable assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.