Barnes-Jewish Extended Care

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it earned an impressive grade in inspections. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In that category, we gave this facility an A. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating is mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third category we looked at is short-term care. Contributing to its first-rate resume, this facility also excelled in that category. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- for that category. Short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last category we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home was given a better than average long-term care score this year, with a B-. While this isn't nearly as good as many of its other scores, this is nevertheless a respectable score for that area. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 64.51613 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.