The Retreat at Brightwater

This nursing home really performed well in long-term care, with a grade of A in this category. This really helped its overall grade quite a bit. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 85.39326 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a bit less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the category of short-term care, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A in that area. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also gave this nursing home an impressive grade of A- for its nursing rating. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we assessed is inspections. We were surprised to find that this nursing home received such a poor inspection grade. We gave it a grade of just just D in this area. This grade is not on par with some of this facility's other grades. Inspection ratings relate to a nursing home's inspections. Since this information is collected by independent inspectors, we weight it pretty heavily. Inspection grades factor in many items on the nursing home's inspection reports. If you see too many deficiencies on the reports, this is typically a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular nursing home had 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we would like to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines in recent years of more than $50,000. This typically signifies that inspectors grew tired after multiple years of failed government inspections.