Burford Manor

On top of earning a strong overall score, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for this category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places 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. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. We weighed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this area. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this area. For residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 82.94118 percent of its patients. This is a few points lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area. Even with a few strong grades in other categories, this grade is still a bit disappointing so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most critical for folks in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.