Beacon Hill

To pair with a favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for inspections. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor dings aren't the end of the world.

This top notch nursing home also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of A+. Only a small group of facilities fared better in this category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. The nursing rating weighs a host of subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home was given an acceptable long-term care rating. While this wasn't nearly as good as a few of its other grades, this is truly nothing to be ashamed of. With our long-term care score, we focus on the volume of care offered by a nursing home, along with a few quality data points. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Finally, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.