Barn Hill Care Center is a large nursing home in Newton, New Jersey. It looks like this nursing home is one of the most impressive nursing homes we assessed. A score in this range requires top-notch marks across the board. We simply can't say enough favorable things about this nursing home. This place also received consistently good grades in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Barn Hill Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
We also want to emphasize that this nursing home earned an impressive grade of A for short-term care. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. When calculating our nursing scores, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our next category, this nursing home also performed admirably in the long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that category. This topped off a very strong profile. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 92.702705 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Barn Hill Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Barn Hill Care Center, 8.68% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Barn Hill Care Center, 1.89% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a fall which resulted in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Barn Hill Care Center, 1.76% of Patients had UTIs
This figure measures the percentage of long-term patients who had a UTI. UTI's may be an indication of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Barn Hill Care Center, 6.47% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications are not medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Barn Hill Care Center, 15.82% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term patients which are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Barn Hill Care Center, 2.37% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Barn Hill Care Center, 93.69% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Barn Hill Care Center, 10.53% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Barn Hill Care Center, 11% of Residents
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Barn Hill Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Barn Hill Care Center, 11% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Barn Hill Care Center, 12.42% of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Barn Hill Care Center, 73.5% of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Newton, NJ
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Newton, New Jersey has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Newton Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.2 miles away175 High St Newton New Jersey 07860Voluntary non-profit - Private(973) 579-8300
- Hackettstown Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.68 miles away651 Willow Grove St Hackettstown New Jersey 07840Voluntary non-profit - Church(908) 852-5100
- Saint Clare's Hospital/ Denville CampusAcute Care Hospitals 19.07 miles away25 Pocono Road Denville New Jersey 07834Proprietary(973) 983-5569
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Renal Ctr Newton0.85 miles awayRenal Center of Newton 7 East Clinton Street Newton New Jersey 07860CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (973) 940-0965
- Physicians Dialysis Hackettstown13.62 miles away657 Willow Grove Street Suite 202 West Wing Medical Plaza Hackettstown New Jersey 07840Dialysis Stations: 14 (908) 684-0630
- Davita Renal Ctr Succasunna14.7 miles away175 Righter Road Succasunna New Jersey 07876Dialysis Stations: 12 (973) 584-3294
- Fmc Dover15.29 miles away400 West Blackwell Street 2 West Dover New Jersey 07801Dialysis Stations: 13 (973) 328-1812
- Fmc Kenvil16.72 miles away677 Route 46 Suite C Kenvil New Jersey 07847CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (973) 252-1301
- Davita - Delaware Valley Dialysis Center18.78 miles away102 Davita Drive Milford Pennsylvania 18337Dialysis Stations: 16 (570) 491-9210