Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Webster, Massachusetts. With an overall grade of B+, this looks like a strong nursing home. Based on our analysis, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of most people. The best part of this nursing home's strong report card was its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph
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Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent short-term care score. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this area. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Nursing ratings are primarily tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home 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.
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Facility Inspections
Adding to its strong resume, this facility earned a grade of B for its inspections rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we looked at was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a B-. Although this turned out to be its worst category rating, this is still not the end of the world. For long-term care residents, the nursing home'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. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 83.67347 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 6.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 3.77% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 2.05% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by poor nursing care. Closer supervision limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 19.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 18.54% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 2.48% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 91.39% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 16.21% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 15.75% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 1.68 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 15.75 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 11.2 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 71.52% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Harrington Memorial Hospital-1Acute Care Hospitals 8.75 miles away100 South Street Southbridge Massachusetts 01550Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 765-9771
- Day Kimball HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.11 miles away320 Pomfret Street Putnam Connecticut 06260Voluntary non-profit - Private(860) 928-6541
- St Vincent HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.8 miles away123 Summer Street Worcester Massachusetts 01608Proprietary(508) 363-5000
- Umass Memorial Medical Center IncAcute Care Hospitals 16.23 miles away55 Lake Avenue North Worcester Massachusetts 01655Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 334-1000
- Milford Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.03 miles away14 Prospect Street Milford Massachusetts 01757Voluntary non-profit - Other(508) 473-1190
- Landmark Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 19.28 miles away115 Cass Avenue Woonsocket Rhode Island 02895Voluntary non-profit - Private(401) 769-4100
Nearby Dialysis
- South County Dialysis Center2.57 miles away336 Thompson Road Suite 1 Webster Massachusetts 01570CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (508) 943-3998
- Auburn Health LLC9.77 miles away771 South Bridge Street Suite 1 Auburn Massachusetts 01501Dialysis Stations: 16 (508) 832-3604
- Bio-Medical Applications of Massachusetts Inc14.27 miles away867 Grafton Street Worcester Massachusetts 01604Dialysis Stations: 16 (203) 387-9332
- Saint Vincent's Hospital14.39 miles awayHemodialysis Unit 123 Summer St, Suite 380 Worcester Massachusetts 01608Dialysis Stations: 12 (508) 363-9460
- Davita Shrewsbury Street Dialysis15.13 miles away267 Shrewsbury Street Worcester Massachusetts 01604Dialysis Stations: 16 (774) 530-6353
- U-Mass Memorial Health Care Systems15.79 miles awayDialysis Unit 55 Lake Avenue North Rm h7-331 Worcester Massachusetts 01655Dialysis Stations: 13 (774) 442-3814
- Davita Pdi Worcester15.97 miles away19 Glennie Street Suite A Worcester Massachusetts 01605CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 29 (508) 421-9539
- Freedom Center of Worcester16 miles away1 Innovation Drive Suite 110 Worcester Massachusetts 01605Dialysis Stations: 6 (508) 767-3950