Salmon Brook Center
72 Salmon Brook Dr, Glastonbury CT 06033 · (860) 633-5244 · 74.3% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Glastonbury, Connecticut, Salmon Brook Center is the sole option we were able to find in the area. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B. A score of this caliber requires solid marks in most areas. Based on our analysis, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. Fortunately, this nursing home did not have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 130 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A-. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Connecticut in this area with 64.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
Turning to another one of this facility's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections proved to be one of its best categories. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A-. Inspection grades are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.
Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. The nursing score considers a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, this facility was relatively weak in two of the datapoints we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we analyzed was long-term care. We gave it a B- in that category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for residents requiring more traditional services associated with activities of daily living. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to just 89.160835 percent of its patients. The last datapoint we assessed is its hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 1.72 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is also slightly below the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Salmon Brook Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term stay residents that are suffering from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a fall resulting in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who have had urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients which were administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of patients showing signs of depression. High rates of depression could reveal a lower level of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Some believe that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better