Brookestone Acres

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this facility an A for its inspection grade. This is far better than its overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received favorable short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more impressive scores in that category, with a B. This turned out to be the facility's second highest score. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. Our nursing rating is primarily based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

Moving on to our fourth area, this nursing home received a grade of C in long-term care, which we consider to be a respectable grade. Long-term care grades are commonly used to assess a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 90.86539 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit below the national average. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.