Burlington Health & Rehabilitation

Burlington Health & Rehabilitation is a large nursing home located in Burlington, Vermont. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. This nursing home is just about as bad as it gets. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although this facility's overall score was rock bottom, it didn't perform as poorly in the area of nursing. We awarded it a B- for that area. In determining our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. With 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this nursing home surpassed the national average. We also look at the skill levels of nurses and add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major datapoints we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are typically good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

We were also pleasantly surprised to learn that this facility received a reasonably solid short-term care grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that area. In our short-term care grade, we strive to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This place provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. On top of performing well in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it also fared well in this area with 57.8 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

We also wanted to point out this place's inspection grade where it received an F. This typically means we found some red flags on the government inspections. When a place has this bad of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility had one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by inspectors had potential to cause actual harm to residents. In addition to having severe deficiencies, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in that category. Facilities that don't fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. This nursing home's vaccination statistics were not as impressive as its nursing hours. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 73.454544 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement in this area in the future. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.94 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.