Brookridge Retirement Community

Brookridge Retirement Community is a small non-profit nursing home located in Winston Salem, North Carolina. This facility was given an overall grade of A. This was radically better than the average nursing home in Winston Salem. Based on our assessment, this place is a no brainer for just about anybody. This facility also received consistently good grades in each of our categories. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

One of the many reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. It doesn't look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to direct your attention to the fact that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them a dominant score of A+ in this area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. In addition to providing well above average levels of nursing care, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.8764 percent of its patients. This percentage is also much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third category we looked at was short-term care. Adding to its high-end profile, this nursing home also performed well in this category. In fact, we awarded it a of A in the category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is frequently a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 71.3 percent of its patients returning home.

The last category we rated was nursing, where this facility was awarded a grade of B+. This completed a very favorable profile. Few facilities received a B+ or higher in every single category. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This facility offers an extremely impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is among the more impressive totals in North Carolina. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.