Brookhaven Nursing & Rehab

Brookhaven Nursing & Rehab is an average-sized facility located in Springfield, Missouri. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B-. A grade in this range requires some respectable marks. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. We were also pleased to find that this nursing home was consistent in each of the major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

We also gave this facility an impressive score in long-term care. This nursing home received a B in this category, which is one of our more impressive grades. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 86.10039 percent of its residents. The last datapoint we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 3.95 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this area, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities based on the medical complexity of patients.

The next area we assessed was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B- in this category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is typically a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 55.2 percent of its residents returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.

Our final category is nursing, in which we awarded this nursing home a grade of C in that category. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.