Little Brook Nursing and Convalescent Home

Unfortunately, we gave this facility some really poor grades. Among them were its F for its short-term care grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is frequently a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Considering its abysmal rating in this category, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home provided far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home had 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we also want to point out that this nursing home was assessed large government fines in recent years totaling more than $100,000. This often signifies that a poor performance spanned more than one year.

The third area we looked at was long-term care, where this nursing home received an F. Facilities that don't fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated a relatively low 64.545456 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

The last area we scored was nursing, in which this facility was given a very poor grade here also. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. When calculating a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.