Berry Hill Nursing Home is a facility in South Boston, Virginia, a city with a total of 13,934 people. Sporting an overall rating of D, this is a lower end nursing home. At the end of the day, we'd struggle to recommend this place. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its strong inspection rating. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category scores
Berry Hill Nursing Home
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we didn't give this nursing home a good overall grade, we actually gave it a strong grade in the area of inspections, where it received a B. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid nursing homes that have too many deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility was awarded its next best category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this category, which is an acceptable grade. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is frequently a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next most favorable category was long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
The last category we analyzed was nursing, which proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This number is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Berry Hill Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 8.72% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term stay patients who have pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 3.64% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered to be a measure of nursing care . Major falls are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 2.55% of Patients had UTIs
This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients that had UTI's. Although a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 13.56% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 20.28% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically given to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 3.63% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients exhibiting signs of depression. High rates of depression may be a sign worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 91.12% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 16.48% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 21.22% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 1.29 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 21.22 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 11.62 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Berry Hill Nursing Home, 75.54% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Sentara Halifax Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.1 miles away2204 Wilborn Avenue South Boston Virginia 24592Voluntary non-profit - Private(434) 517-3100
Nearby Dialysis
- Renal Care Group - South Boston1.31 miles away2043 Hamilton Blvd South Boston Virginia 24592CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (434) 572-3942
- Fresenius Kidney Care of Halifax2.08 miles away130 Aubreys Loop South Boston Virginia 24592Dialysis Stations: 17 (434) 575-4601