Eastern State Hospital Long Term-Acquired Brain

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 76.78571 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. Our nursing grade includes a host of subcategories. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the final category, this facility was awarded an extremely favorable short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in this area, giving this facility straight A's. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.