Andover Subacute and Rehab I

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's next most favorable category was its long-term care grade, where it was given a B-. With our long-term care score, we assess the quantity of services provided by a facility, as well as a series of quality datapoints. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 97.26651 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of D. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are with residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's worst category is short-term care, which is the final category we scored. It received an abysmal F for this category. In spite of several acceptable scores in other areas, this grade is still alarming so we felt obligated to point it out. Our short-term care scores are vital for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Considering its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.8 percent of its patients returning home.