Barton Hospital Distinct Part Skilled Nursing Service

On top of being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were nearly perfect. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded an A+ short-term care grade, making it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category scores. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. This nursing home is significantly above average in terms of its quantity of both registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients. In fact, it supplied about 1.5 times as much care per patient from both of these groups of skilled professionals than a typical facility provided. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the country with 60.3 percent of its residents returning home.

In the next category we analyzed, this facility was given elite marks in the category of long-term care. For this reason, it received one of our best grades in that area with a grade of of A+. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to elite nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination record was superb also. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 99.32886 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This combination proved to be successful as this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.39 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Turning to the fourth area, this facility also excelled in the nursing category. We awarded it an A for this area. This completed a straight A report card. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 5.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this place performed as well as any facility the nation.