Brunswick Nursing & Rehab

While we were not very complementary of this nursing home's overall grade, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of A-. Inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. 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 positive inspection report.

Sadly, this nursing home's second highest score is short-term care. However, with a D in this area, it still performed somewhat poorly. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. As you might expect, we learned that this place offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care rating. This is not a very good score. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to only 84.39716 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Moving on to our fourth area, we gave this nursing home a D for our nursing category. This is the facility's worst category grade. There are quite a few factors included in this category. Many of these factors are tied to staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.