Brookhaven Extensive Care

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we wanted to emphasize its excellent short-term care score. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Short-term care ratings are critical for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also performed at a high level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. We looked at the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Switching gears to the last category, this facility received an acceptable long-term care score. Although this is not quite as strong as several of its other category grades, this is truly not a terrible score. Our long-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of care. This means a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.