Barton Skilled Nursing Facility

On top of performing well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A+. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This first-rate facility also performed remarkably in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A+. Few facilities fared better in this area. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.611115 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning our next area, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its short-term care grade. This is a dominant rating. Short-term care scores are crucial for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning to our final category, this facility also excelled in the nursing category. We gave it an A for this area. This topped off truly elite report card. There are a host of subcategories included in this area. Most of the data points relate to nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.