The Brightonian

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility only received a grade of D for its long-term care rating, which turns out to be one of its better category scores. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 79.52756 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be significantly below what we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Our third area we looked at was short-term care, where this facility received an F. Short-term care grades are typically employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Based on its score in this category, we were not shocked to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse hours offered to its residents. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 39.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The next category we scored is nursing. Sadly, it received an F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This facility provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. In addition to being below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these data points. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing rating significantly.