Barn Hill Care Center is a large nursing home in Newton, New Jersey. This facility received an A- overall, which is one of the best scores that we offer. A score of this caliber requires excellent scores across the board. We simply can not say enough great things about this place. This place also received very consistent grades in all of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades is available below.
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Barn Hill Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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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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Short-term Care Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning our next category, this nursing home was given first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A- in that area. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 94.04762 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
In our last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing score. This rounded out an elite profile. Our nursing grade analyzes quite a few components, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 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 minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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, 8.94% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Barn Hill Care Center, 2.79% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents that have had a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Barn Hill Care Center, 1.44% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic may also be skewed for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Barn Hill Care Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents who are given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Barn Hill Care Center, 17.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term patients that were given antianxiety medication. These drugs are generally used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Barn Hill Care Center, 6.37% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Barn Hill Care Center, 89.73% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Barn Hill Care Center, 10.05% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and continence. Some argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Barn Hill Care Center, 10.04% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Barn Hill Care Center, 1.88 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Barn Hill Care Center, 10.04 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Barn Hill Care Center, 9.47 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Barn Hill Care Center, 81.82% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
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