Juniper Village at Brookline-Rehabilitation and Sk

On top of earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home fared well in short-term care. We awarded it an A for that category. Short-term care grades are generally used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an A. Our nursing rating assesses many components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections proved to be one of its best grades. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A-. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

This facility's worst area is long-term care, which is the final area we assessed. In this area, we awarded this facility an D. We wanted to point out this potential weak spot, but you should not focus exclusively on a single bad category either. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 75.449104 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.