Brownfield Rehabilitation and Care Center

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far better than its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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 still had positive view of this nursing home's recent inspections.

This nursing home received its second most favorable category score in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. For long-term care residents, the nursing home'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 amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.66667 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this facility was given a grade of just D in this area. 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. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Turning to our last category, this nursing home did not perform well. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's worst grade. Nursing scores are tied to nurse staffing levels. This particular facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This statistic is far below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.