Brookside Rehabilitation and Wellness

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home also earned an excellent short-term care grade, with an A. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is frequently a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home averages 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving patients more frequently.

This facility also was awarded a top-shelf long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this facility's third strongest category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. This finished off this place's straight A report card. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. Unfortunately, it does not look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.