Brookdale Richmond Place Snf

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It outperformed most facilities in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.37828 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a grade of B. Our short-term care grade is generally used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last area we looked at is nursing. We gave this facility a grade of D in nursing, rendering this the facility's least impressive area. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. With only 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care.