Located in San Mateo, California, Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital is one of just a few available facilities in this area. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the better nursing homes we looked at. A score of this caliber requires first-rate scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top quarter of all facilities in the country. As you will see below, this place also performed just fine in our category grades. It's hard to poke holes in this place's profile.
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Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
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Long-term Care Quality
In addition to performing well in its overall score, this facility received an excellent long-term care rating. We gave it a grade of A- in that category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.98995 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Our nursing rating is largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
In our last category, we gave this facility a grade of A- for its short-term care grade. This topped off a very impressive profile. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 1.84% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care residents who sustained falls which caused major injury. We use this statistic in determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 1.34% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often the result of poor nursing care. Closer supervision limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 10.3% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 13.84% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term stay residents which were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 5.83% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients demonstrating signs of depression. Higher rates of depression could indicate a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 95.65% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 8.26% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 10.41% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels. Some experts argue that the ability to move around is vital to residents' well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 10.41 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 11.34 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital, 79.12% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- San Mateo Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.96 miles away222 W 39th Ave San Mateo California 94403Government - Local(650) 573-2222
- Sequoia HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.23 miles away170 Alameda De Las Pulgas Redwood City California 94062Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 367-5551
- Mills-Peninsula Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.58 miles away1501 Trousdale Drive Burlingame California 94010Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 696-5270
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Redwood CityAcute Care Hospitals 5.85 miles away1100 Veterans Boulevard Redwood City California 94063Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 299-2000
- Stanford Health CareAcute Care Hospitals 10.51 miles away300 Pasteur Drive Stanford California 94305Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 723-5708
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South San FranciscoAcute Care Hospitals 10.93 miles away1200 El Camino Real South San Francisco California 94080Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 742-3200
- St Rose HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.24 miles away27200 Calaroga Ave Hayward California 94545Voluntary non-profit - Church(510) 782-6200
- Seton Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.32 miles away1900 Sullivan Avenue Daly City California 94015Voluntary non-profit - Church(650) 992-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Wellbound of San Mateo0.42 miles away2000 South El Camino Real 2nd Floor San Mateo California 94403Dialysis Stations: 4 (650) 377-0882
- Satellite Dialysis San Mateo0.42 miles away2000 South El Camino Real San Mateo California 94403CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (650) 377-0888
- Foster City Dialysis Center2.77 miles away1261 East Hillsdale Blvd #2 San Mateo California 94404Dialysis Stations: 16 (650) 638-9301
- Satellite Dialysis Redwood City4.34 miles away1125 Industrial Rd Suite G San Carlos California 94070CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (650) 366-0789
- Davita Burlingame5.44 miles away1720 El Camino Real Burlingame California 94010CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (650) 697-7601
- Davita Mills Dialysis5.57 miles away100 South San Mateo Drive San Mateo California 94401Dialysis Stations: 19 (650) 548-4985
- Redwood City Dialysis Center5.82 miles away1000 Marshall Street Redwood City California 94063CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (650) 365-0129
- Satellite Healthcare South San Francisco9.56 miles away205 Kenwood Way South San Francisco California 94080CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (650) 616-7788