The Lodge at Brookline

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility also received first-rate inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area, with an A. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home received an excellent nursing grade. We gave it a grade of B+ in that area. Nursing scores are largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to our third category, this nursing home also earned a grade of B for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. It does not look like this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the last area, this facility received an excellent short-term care grade. This facility did not turn out to have any real weaknesses. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. We were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.