Burlington Convalescent Hospital

While we did not have many positive things to say about this nursing home's overall score, it did receive a somewhat respectable inspection report this year. It received a decent grade in this area with a B-. We believe that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's second highest area turned out to be its long-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of B-. Our long-term care grades are more critical for individuals requiring more conventional assistance related to personal care. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 90.73034 percent of its patients. This is many points below what we expected. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. Our nursing rating weighs many factors, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

The last area we scored is short-term care. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that area. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With a grade of this caliber for this area, we weren't shocked to learn this place was below average in several staffing figures we looked at. In fact, it offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 1.9 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.