Andover Subacute and Rehab Ii

Although we graded this facility extremely poorly overall, it earned a more respectable long-term care score this year. We gave it a B- in that area, which is the closest thing to a bright spot we were able to find for this facility. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to only 67.28972 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Nursing scores are largely based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the number of hours of care provided.

Unfortunately, this facility's third best category is short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared somewhat badly. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. With a grade of this caliber for this area, we were not surprised to discover this nursing home was well below average in multiple staffing figures we assess. It offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received an abysmal grade. When a place has this poor of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This nursing home had 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.