Overbrook Center

While we didn't give this nursing home a good overall grade, we did give it a strong grade in the area of nursing, where it earned a B. This is better than most facilities in this category. The nursing grade analyzes several components, most of which are based on nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next most favorable area we gave this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In our long-term care grade, we weigh the quantity of services offered by a nursing home, as well as some qualitative measures. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.60317 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's third best area turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection rating. We gave it a score of just D in this category. Inspection scores relate to a nursing home's government inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home had 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This often means that a facility's bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.