Masonic Village at Burlington

Masonic Village at Burlington is located in Burlington, New Jersey. This facility appears to be among the better facilities we looked at. A score of this caliber requires high-end marks across the board. You really can't do much better than this place. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its nursing rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. We looked at the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This place provided 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is among the more impressive totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by these figures. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Moving on our next area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its short-term care grade. This is a very impressive grade. Our short-term care scores are vital for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This place is above average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 40.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care, in which this facility received a grade of C. While this wound up being its least impressive category score, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. In computing these long-term care scores, we quantify the facility's personal care services. On top of providing solid levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This figure is higher than many nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.