Barrington Terrace of Boynton Beach

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received an A+ short-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to be awarded several A+ category scores. Our short-term care grade is generally used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In our last category, this facility also was given an impressive long-term care grade, with a grade of A. This completed a very impressive profile. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.