The Brightonian

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility received its second best category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to create a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

We also gave this facility a respectable score in the category of long-term care, where it received a C. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 67.76316 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the final area, we gave this nursing home a D in nursing. This is the nursing home's least impressive category grade. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and found this place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic dragged down this facility's nursing grade significantly.