Beaumont at University Campus

Beaumont at University Campus is just one of 17 possibilities in Worcester, Massachusetts. We awarded this nursing home an impressive overall rating of A. This proved to be in a different league than most of the nursing homes in Worcester. We really can't say enough great things about this place. If you look further down this page, you will see this nursing home's category ratings, which are also strong.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This place performed as well as just about any facility in Massachusetts with 74.9 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, less than half of their short-term patients return home.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. There are a number of subcategories within this grade. Most of the criteria relate to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This nursing home fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care.

In our final category, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care grade. This finished off a very favorable profile. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 72.96703 percent of its residents. This is a few points less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. While it had 1.89 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than the majority of nursing homes due to it having some more complex patients.