Barton Skilled Nursing Facility

On top of faring well overall, this facility also received nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it received one of our highest grades in that area with a grade of A+. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many elite grades, this facility received an excellent short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is typically a meaningful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Building on its remarkable profile, this nursing home also received a superb long-term care score, with a score of A. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.37888 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Lastly, 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.

In the last category we looked at, this nursing home was awarded a very strong grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A profile. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.