Brookhaven Extensive Care

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home was awarded its next best category score in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this area, which is a respectable grade. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next highest score is long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were not able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

This nursing home's weakest category is nursing, which is the last category we looked at. For this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of just D. When computing our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these data points to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.