Brickyard Healthcare - Richmond Care Center

Although we didn't give this nursing home a good overall grade, we did give it a relatively strong grade in the area of inspections, where it received a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an C. Our nursing score features a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, nursing ratings also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

This nursing home's second least favorable score is long-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor score. Nursing homes that don't score well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility provided the vaccine to a relatively low 71.75141 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

Moving on to the final area, we gave this nursing home a D for short-term care. This was the nursing home's least impressive category rating. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is frequently a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Considering its score in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.