The Berkeley Retirement Home

On top of being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly perfect. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a dominant long-term care score. Indeed, this is this nursing home's second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 79.72973 percent of its patients. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. In determining our nursing grades, we look at both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning patients at least once a day.

In our final category, we gave this facility an A+ for its short-term care rating. This rounded out a very impressive profile. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.