Meadowbrook Acres

In addition to a strong overall score, this nursing home also received an impressive short-term care grade. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a B+. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is generally a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Building on its quality profile, this nursing home also earned favorable inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to our third category, this nursing home also received a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.10145 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we graded is nursing, in which this facility was awarded a grade of B. This facility didn't turn out to have any weaknesses. Our nursing score assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.