Brunswick Nursing & Rehab

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. 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. Even with this deficiency, this was still a relatively favorable report.

This facility's second most favorable category was its long-term care score, where it received a B-. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated only 89.40398 percent of its residents for pneumonia. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. The nursing category assesses many datapoints, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a relatively low total compared with most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. While this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this subcategory. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning residents even once per day.

The last area we analyzed is short-term care, in which this facility was given a bottom of the barrel score in this category also. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is definitely very concerning. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. As you might expect, we found that this nursing home provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.