Juniper Village at Bucks County Rehab and Skd Care

On top of earning a strong overall grade, this facility performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing grade considers many factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a patient more often.

Among this facility's other strengths is its dominant short-term care score. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a score of A-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. This proved to be one of its best category grades. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of B+. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The final area we scored is long-term care, was this facility's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. This is one of the few dings on a quality profile. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 3.225806 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.