Eastbrook Healthcare Center

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we gave it a B for our nursing rating. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. There are numerous subcategories within this category. Many of the factors reflect nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents even once per day.

This nursing home's second best category was long-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to a relatively low 65.17857 percent of its residents, which is somewhat concerning. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next best area came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this also impacted quality of care. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The final category we assessed is inspections. This facility didn't receive glowing inspection reports in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F. With nursing homes that received this poor of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we also need to point out that this nursing home was assessed large government fines in recent years in excess of $50,000. This usually signifies that inspectors became frustrated after multiple years of bad health inspections.