Brookside Haven Health Care Center

Brookside Haven Health Care Center is a small non-profit nursing home located in Muncie, Indiana. We gave this facility an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. This facility does not seem to have any redeeming qualities. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection grades are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

This nursing home also didn't fare too badly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which happens to be another one of its higher grades. Long-term care grades are pivotal for individuals in need of personal care. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 47.61905 percent of its residents. This is several points below the national average. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. This facility did not excel here either, with 3.82 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this number may be skewed for some facilities based on the preexisting medical conditions of patients.

We were surprised to find that this facility also excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we gave it an D for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. To pair with its low total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had poor scores in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing falls leading to major injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing score.

This facility's least impressive area was short-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a D. Our short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this place offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.