Broadway House for Continuing

We also want to note that this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. We gave them an A+ in this area. When computing our nursing scores, we analyze both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This score is based on the place's government inspections. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. It doesn't appear that we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional strength for this nursing home is long-term care, where it was given an A+ rating. This is simply as elite as it gets in this area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.2 percent of its residents, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our final category, this facility also excelled in our short-term care category. We gave it an A- for this category. This completed truly elite report card. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.