Sprain Brook Manor Rehab

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ inspection score. This score is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

In addition, this nursing home also was awarded favorable long-term care scores this year. In fact, we gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It performed better than most facilities in this area. Short-term care grades are important for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final category we scored was nursing, where this facility was given a grade of B. This actually was this facility's worst area. A nursing home is doing something right when it's lowest grade still rates higher than most other facilities. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.