Heritage Inn of Barnesville Health and Rehab

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with an A+. This is a much better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

In addition, we also wanted to point out that this facility received strong long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the facility's second best grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.12676 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we looked at was nursing, where we gave this facility an F. This was definitely one of this facility's major weaknesses. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This place performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's worst category is short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. It received a lowly F in this category. In spite of some decent scores in other areas, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we felt obligated to make a note of it. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. With its poor score in this category, we weren't stunned to find this place offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.