Brookdale Richmond Place Snf

This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 92.25092 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our better grades in our short-term care category as well, with a B. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It does not look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Our next category is nursing, where we gave this facility a grade of C in that category. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared with most other facilities. Finally, nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.