Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough is in Westborough, Massachusetts. This facility appears to be one of the more impressive facilities we assessed. A score of this caliber requires high-end marks across the board. This grade is even higher than the city grade of B+ in Westborough, which is also an impressive grade. Keep reading to find this nursing home's category scores, which are also impressive. It's hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.
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Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Audiology
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Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home has received excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this area. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also fared very well in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Very few nursing homes performed better in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is more often than not a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave them one of our better scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.31544 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to the next category, this nursing home also performed well in the nursing category. In fact, we gave it a B+ for that category. This rounded out a very impressive profile. Our nursing rating analyzes a handful of data points, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 5.64% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 1.79% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who suffered falls resulting in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 1.14% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 22.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 12.41% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 1.89% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients showing symptoms of depression. Some believe this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 97.58% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 16.92% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 9.08% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 9.08% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 8.71% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center at Westborough, 72.85% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Marlborough HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.8 miles away157 Union Street Marlborough Massachusetts 01752Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 481-5000
- Umass Memorial Medical Center IncAcute Care Hospitals 7.75 miles away55 Lake Avenue North Worcester Massachusetts 01655Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 334-1000
- Metrowest Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.38 miles away115 Lincoln Street Framingham Massachusetts 01701Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 383-1000
- St Vincent HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.66 miles away123 Summer Street Worcester Massachusetts 01608Proprietary(508) 363-5000
- Milford Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.01 miles away14 Prospect Street Milford Massachusetts 01757Voluntary non-profit - Other(508) 473-1190
- Emerson Hospital -Acute Care Hospitals 16.79 miles away133 Old Road to 9 Acre Corner Concord Massachusetts 01742Voluntary non-profit - Private(978) 369-1400
- Newton-Wellesley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.52 miles away2014 Washington Street Newton Lower Falls Massachusetts 02462Voluntary non-profit - Other(617) 243-6000
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - NeedhamAcute Care Hospitals 18.57 miles away148 Chestnut Street Needham Heights Massachusetts 02494Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 453-3002
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Medical Care of Marlborough2.77 miles away360 Cedar Hill Street Suite 3 Marlborough Massachusetts 01752CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (508) 460-9250
- University Dialysis Center (Bma of Shrewsbury)6.93 miles away239-243 Boston Turnpike Road Shrewsbury Massachusetts 01545Dialysis Stations: 16 (508) 753-0886
- U-Mass Memorial Health Care Systems7.77 miles awayDialysis Unit 55 Lake Avenue North Rm h7-331 Worcester Massachusetts 01655Dialysis Stations: 13 (774) 442-3814
- Freedom Center of Worcester8.13 miles away1 Innovation Drive Suite 110 Worcester Massachusetts 01605Dialysis Stations: 6 (508) 767-3950
- Bio-Medical Applications of Massachusetts Inc8.15 miles away867 Grafton Street Worcester Massachusetts 01604Dialysis Stations: 16 (203) 387-9332
- Fresenius Medical Care Framingham8.74 miles away110 Mt. Wayte Ave. Framingham Massachusetts 01702CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (508) 628-3801
- Davita Shrewsbury Street Dialysis8.92 miles away267 Shrewsbury Street Worcester Massachusetts 01604Dialysis Stations: 16 (774) 530-6353
- Saint Vincent's Hospital10.05 miles awayHemodialysis Unit 123 Summer St, Suite 380 Worcester Massachusetts 01608Dialysis Stations: 12 (508) 363-9460