Andover Subacute and Rehab I

On top of receiving a strong overall rating, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can offer a facility. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home earned an excellent nursing grade. We gave it a grade of B+ in that category. Nursing ratings are mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning residents more often.

This nursing home was given a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 97.68421 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we analyzed is short-term care. We gave this nursing home an acceptable grade in that category, with a grade of B-. Even though this isn't as dominant as some of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.