Brynwood Health and Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

Another one of this nursing home's better category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this area. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 67.78523 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Our nursing score is mostly based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, our nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The next area we graded is short-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is clearly concerning. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. We found that this facility was below average in multiple staffing areas we looked at. It provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.