Berlin Health & Rehab Center

Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Berlin Health & Rehab Center's website

98 Hospitality Drive,
Barre VT 05641

(802) 229-0308

54.32% estimated occupancy ¹

Berlin Health & Rehab Center is a large nursing home located in Barre, Vermont. This nursing home is a decent facility, with an overall grade of B-. As far as we can see, this nursing home would be a good fit for quite a few people. This facility is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
For profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category, with an A-. This is a notably better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Short-term Care Quality

In addition, we also would like to note that this nursing home was awarded strong short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our higher grades in this category, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest grade. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

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Nurse Quality

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a low total compared with most facilities. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did well in this area. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients more frequently.

Long-term Care Quality

The last area we looked at is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. Our long-term care ratings are more critical for people in need of more conventional services associated with activities of daily living. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated only 90.378006 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Berlin Health & Rehab Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 6.38% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients which have new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an indicator of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 4.55% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls which result in injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 2.8% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this datapoint may also be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 14.83% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 15.99% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 11.28% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 96.47% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 17.28% Percentage of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and bathing.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 24.97% Percentage of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is vital to patients physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 0.88 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical health of patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 24.97 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 14.85 Percentage of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Berlin Health & Rehab Center, 78.53% Percentage of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's generally correlates with successful rehabilitation.

Nearby Dialysis

University of Vermont Medical Center Dialysis Berlin2.98 miles awayCentral Vermont Hospital / Renal Dialysis Unit 130 Fisher Road, Floor 3 / P.O.box 547 Barre Vermont 05641Dialysis Stations: 9 (802) 225-7033