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 91.92708 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of C in this category is by no means a bad score. Our nursing score assesses many subcategories, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care, which is this facility's worst area. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. Naturally, this category hurt the facility's overall profile a bit. Short-term care grades are generally employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.