Diversicare of Brookhaven

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also performed well in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A+. Very few nursing homes fared this well in this category. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded a impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being its second strongest category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.181816 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the senior population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. There are a variety of criteria within this grade. Most of these datapoints relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Mississippi in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a resident more often.

The next category we assessed is short-term care, where this facility received a B. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. A facility is doing something right when it's worst score still is superior to most other nursing homes. In computing these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.