Brookdale Carriage Club Providence

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also gave this facility a score of A+ for its short-term care grade. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

The final category we scored was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a C. This is this nursing home's weakest area. This is still a middle of the pack score. In computing these long-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. It doesn't look like this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Lastly, this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.