Brownfield Rehabilitation and Care Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this area with a grade of A. These inspection scores 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 particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we had favorable view of this facility's recent inspections.

This facility's second best area was its long-term care score, where it received a C. Our long-term care scores are more critical for residents in need of more conventional services related to activities of daily living. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.90722 percent of its patients, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. This place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Sadly, this facility's third best category is short-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is more often than not a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation. With a grade in this range for this area, we were not surprised to find this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing figures we looked at. The facility provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we assessed is nursing, which is this nursing home's worst category. We gave this facility a D in that category. Our nursing grade features many data points. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This statistic is significantly below the national average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility had poor scores in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients having falls which led to serious injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is alarming in light of the fact that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.