Clearview Brain Injury Center

In addition to being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ inspections recently. Its inspections are nearly perfect. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. We were not able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility performed well in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an exemplary grade of A+ in this category. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.039215 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also was awarded a dominant short-term care grade. This actually is its third most impressive category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is often a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on to our last area, this facility was awarded an excellent nursing score. We gave it a B+ in that area, rounding out one of our better report cards. Nursing scores are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.