Wellbrooke of Carmel

Wellbrooke of Carmel is located in Carmel, Indiana. This city has 77,123 people. It looks like this nursing home is among the higher-rated facilities we assessed. A grade in this range requires high-end marks across the board. Indeed, this turned out to be better than most of the facilities in Carmel, which boasts a strong selection of facilities. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its elite performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to elite nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination records is first-rate as well. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 98.290596 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This combination proved to be effective as this place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.41 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Turning the page to our next area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care rating. This is a superb grade. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. This nursing home is respectable both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. It performed as well as just about any facility in Indiana in this area with 70.1 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The last area we graded is nursing. This facility received an above average nursing grade in our assessment, with a C. While this isn't quite as elite as many of its other grades, this remains an acceptable grade for this area. Our nursing category is based on many factors, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure. Lastly, we factored a few quality measures into our nursing scores. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the metrics we focus on, with below average marks for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are usually pretty good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.