Brookestone Village

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home also received nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not 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 first-rate facility also fared very well in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A+. Only a small group of facilities performed better in this category. Short-term care grades are often employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. Contributing to its strong profile, this nursing home also excelled in that category. In fact, it received a of A in the area. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.03148 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we scored is nursing, where this nursing home received a grade of A-. This topped off a very impressive profile. Not many facilities earned an A- or higher in all four categories. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.