Barfield Health Care

On top of receiving a great overall rating, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem 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.

This facility really excelled in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Not many facilities performed more favorably in this area. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 90.54054 percent of its residents against pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this statistic. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents at least once a day.

This nursing home's worst area is short-term care, which is the final area we scored. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of just D. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, we discovered that this place offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.