Landmark of Bardstown Rehabilitation and Nursing

With an address in Bardstown, Kentucky, Landmark of Bardstown Rehabilitation and Nursing is one of just a few available facilities in this city. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a well below average nursing home. Bardstown received a city grade of B, so there are other options in the city worth considering. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection score. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category scores

Although we didn't grade this facility favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities with severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

The second most favorable area we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It performed more favorably in this metric. In fact, we found it was above average in this metric with 53.4 percent of its residents returning home.

The third most favorable area we gave this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. In calculating these long-term care ratings, we look at the facility's personal care services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 92.59259 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.12 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities based on the preexisting medical conditions of patients.

The next area we scored is nursing, where this nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade here as well. It received an F in this area, which is obviously a major concern. Nursing grades are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics hurt this facility's nursing grade significantly.