The Village at Brookwood

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this very important area. Inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received an A+ for its long-term care grade. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. We analyzed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In the last category, this facility received another A+ for its short-term care score, topping off a truly spectacular profile of straight A+'s in all of our categories. Short-term care ratings are crucial for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.