Barry Community Care Center

While we gave this place a poor overall score, we awarded it a somewhat respectable score in the area of inspections, where we gave it a B-. This was certainly better than its other category grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an B-. Nursing ratings are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, while this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this subcategory.

This nursing home's second least favorable score was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average grade. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.6 percent of its residents returning home.

The final category we graded is long-term care, which ended up being this facility's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in that area. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.96907 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.