Paul L & Martha Barone Care Center

While we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we would like to point out its decent inspection reports in recent years. We awarded it a relatively respectable score of B- in that area. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. The nursing rating assesses many datapoints, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

This nursing home's third best category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of B-. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last category we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a B- in this category. In the category of long-term care, we look at the amount of care provided by a nursing home, rather than more medically-intensive services. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.