Brownsburg Meadows

This nursing home excelled at short-term care, with an A in this category. This really propped up its overall grade. Our short-term care grades are probably more critical for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 7.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Inspections is another category where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections category. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned an A+ nursing score. The nursing rating weighs several subcategories, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.

The last category we scored is long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of D for long-term care, leaving this as its worst area. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 98.79518 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.