Brown Nursing Home

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded a very impressive long-term care score. This actually ended up being this facility's second most impressive category grade. In that category, this facility received a grade of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.58159 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third category we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home was awarded an above average short-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in the area. Short-term care grades are generally used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next area we looked at was nursing. We gave this facility one of our better grades in this area, with a grade of B. Although this is not on par with several of this nursing home's other grades, it is still a perfectly acceptable grade. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. 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 in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.