Brooking Park

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent inspection report. Consequently, we gave it one of our best grades in this category with an A. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to alert you to the fact that this facility received an elite score of A in our short-term care category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Compounding its high-end profile, this facility also was given a dominant long-term care grade, with a grade of A. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. It doesn't appear that this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In our last category, this facility also was given an excellent nursing grade, with a grade of A. This completed an elusive straight A profile. Our nursing rating analyzes a handful of subcategories, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.