Bronte Health and Rehab Center

On top of performing well overall, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this facility's list of achievements, it also was awarded a very favorable long-term care grade. We awarded them an elite grade of A in this category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 92.24806 percent of its residents, which is somewhat lower than we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses are with patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 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 facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last area we analyzed was short-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. This actually is this facility's worst area. This is still not the end of the world. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.