Brooking Park

One of the reasons this place is a strong nursing home is that it received a very impressive inspection score. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In this category, we gave it an A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing score is primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher scores in that area, with a score of B+. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This score is generally a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we graded was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a D in the area of long-term care, rendering this the nursing home's worst category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.