Caretel Inns of Brighton

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing score is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning patients even once per day.

This nursing home also was awarded an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category scores. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The last area we rated is long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a solid grade of B-. This actually was this facility's weakest category. With our long-term care grade, we focus on the quantity of services provided by a nursing home, as well as a series of qualitative data points. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.