Brookville Healthcare Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Adding to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was awarded a superb short-term care score. We gave them a strong strong of A- in this category. Short-term care grades are crucial for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our higher scores in our long-term care category as well, with a B. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we graded was nursing. This nursing home was awarded an impressive nursing rating in our assessment, with a grade of B-. Even though this isn't quite as elite as many of its other scores, this is still an acceptable rating in this area. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider some quality-focused statistics. We like to look at the percentage of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are indicators of the quality of nursing care, since superior care can reduce these issues.