Brookside Rehabilitation and Wellness

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent long-term care score, with a grade of A. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We were not able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning the page to our next category, we gave this facility a score of A for our short-term care rating. This is a dominant rating. In our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In the last category we analyzed, this nursing home was awarded a very favorable grade of A in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home completed a straight A report card. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.