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Borderview Rehab & Living Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating

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Borderview Rehab & Living Center's website

208 State Street,
Van Buren ME 04785

(207) 868-5211

47.45% estimated occupancy ¹

Located in Van Buren, Maine, Borderview Rehab & Living Center is the only facility we identified there. It looks like this nursing home is among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. A score in this range requires superb scores across the board. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top fifth of all facilities in the nation. Scroll down to find this nursing home's category grades, which are also strong. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

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Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management

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Awards

Top Nursing Home in Maine Awards 2019

Top Nursing Home in Maine Awards 2020

Top Nursing Home in Maine Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Nurse Quality

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. In calculating a facility's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving residents at least once a day.

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Short-term Care Quality

The third category we assessed is short-term care. Adding to its high-end profile, this facility also performed well in that area. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- for the category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Long-term Care Quality

The next area we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B. Even though this turned out to be its poorest category grade, this is nevertheless an above average rating. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 83.51649 percent of its residents, which is slightly below what we anticipated. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Borderview Rehab & Living Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 7.41% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 8.79% of Patients had Serious Falls

This gauges the percentage of long-term residents who experienced falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing care limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 1.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients that are prescribed antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities may need to rely on these medications due to having more patients with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 32.97% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 0% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 90.8% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines indispensable.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 20% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Some believe this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 37.11% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels. Some experts believe that the ability to move around is important for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical health of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 37.11% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 11.37% of Patients

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Borderview Rehab & Living Center, 75.89% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.