Bartram Crossing

Bartram Crossing is located in the large metropolitan area of Jacksonville, Florida. Sporting an overall score of A, this is clearly a first-rate nursing home. In fact, this is actually one of the five highest graded nursing homes in Jacksonville. This facility also received strong grades in all of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a first-rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled at short-term care, where it received an elite grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. In forming our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 74.2 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A+. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This facility provides an incredible 5 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Continuing with its amazing performance, this facility also earned an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Our inspection grades are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The next area we scored was long-term care. This facility was given an impressive nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of B. Even though this is not quite as good as several of its other scores, this is still one of our more favorable grades in that area. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of providing elite levels of nursing care, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.13 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.