Alliance Health at Abbott

Alliance Health at Abbott is a small non-profit nursing home in Lynn, Massachusetts. This turns out to be an A rated facility, which is one of the top ratings that we offer. Impressively, this was in line with the other facilities in Lynn, which has some of the highest graded nursing homes in Massachusetts. We also gave this facility strong scores in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this place also excelled in inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its high-end resume, this facility also was awarded an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. Short-term care ratings are vital for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility in the country in this area with 56.6 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.

In the final category we scored, this nursing home was given an impressive grade grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the facility topped off a very strong report card. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.402596 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.