Brookline Manor and Rehabilitative Services

With an address in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, Brookline Manor and Rehabilitative Services is the sole nursing home we identified in this city. We gave this nursing home an alarming overall rating based on the data we looked at. This nursing home does not seem to have much going for it. Finally, inspections was the only shining light in our review of this nursing home. We provide additional information about this category below.

While this place's overall grade was terrible, it actually performed pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid places that have too many severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating and that actually turned out to be its second highest score. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility offered a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home was above average in two of the major datapoints we considered, with good marks for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are often good indicators of the quality of nursing care available.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is well below average in this category. With our short-term care rating, we endeavor to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 35.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The last area we rated was long-term care, where this facility was given a rock bottom grade in this category also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is definitely somewhat alarming. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility gave the vaccine to 98.95105 percent of its patients, which is a very solid percentage. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. With 1.84 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this place did not fare quite as well.