The Bartlett Skilled Nursing and Assisted Living

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more data for this facility. Without having all of the information regarding deficiencies, it is difficult to fully assess the place in this area.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a resident more frequently.

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded it one of our stronger grades in that area, with a score of B+. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned 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.

The next category we scored was long-term care. This facility was awarded a favorable nursing rating this year, with a grade of B. Although this is not as good as several of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of our better grades for this category. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were not able to track down this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.