Juniper Village at Bucks County Rehab and Skd Care

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Our nursing score is primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Among this nursing home's other accomplishments is its high-end short-term care grade. It received one of our more impressive scores in that area, with a grade of A-. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it excelled in inspections, with a grade of B in that category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care, which was a weak spot for this nursing home. We gave this nursing home a D in our long-term care category, making this the nursing home's worst area. We'd nevertheless suggest that you consider all of a facility's category grades. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 3.225806 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is several points below average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.