Eastbrook Center

Even though we graded this nursing home very poorly overall, it received a somewhat respectable nursing rating this year. We gave it a B- in that area. The nursing category analyzes many factors, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is not an impressive total. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared well in this area. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a C for its short-term care grade, which isn't too bad of a score. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The important question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home's second worse category was long-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average score. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.071594 percent of its patients, which is somewhat lower than we were hoping for. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The final category we looked at was inspections. This ended up being this facility's worst grade. We gave it a D in this category. Since this data is compiled by independent government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our assessment. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. You should be more cautious when considering a nursing home with severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This facility had 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 17 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.