Bartram Crossing

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem 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.

This top notch nursing home also dominated in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A+. Very few facilities fared better in this category. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 7.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility also received a very strong long-term care grade. This actually is its third best category grade. In that category, this facility received a score of A. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.2 percent of its residents. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this nursing home was given a very strong nursing rating. We gave it an A in that category, giving this facility straight A's. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.