Burlington House Nursing Home

Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category scores gave us anything to write home about. Its best category is nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. Nursing grades are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our short-term care rating and that actually ended up being its second highest score. Our short-term care grades are likely more critical for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. As you might expect, we found that this facility provides significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

Sadly, this facility received a grade of just D in our inspection category. This is well below average grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home had 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This usually suggests that a nursing home's poor performance spanned several years.

The final area we scored was long-term care. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that area. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated only 70.38961 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.