Benjamin Healthcare Center
120 Fisher Avenue, Roxbury Crossing MA 02120 · (617) 738-1500 · 70.78% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Benjamin Healthcare Center is located in Roxbury Crossing, Massachusetts, a city with a population of 15,181 people. Sporting an overall score of D, this is a well below average nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Roxbury Crossing. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive nursing score. You can scroll down to learn more about nursing and other category scores
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 205 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While we were not complementary of this nursing home's overall score, it actually earned an impressive nursing rating this year. We gave it a B+ in this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second most favorable area was long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this area. In computing our long-term care ratings, we scrutinize the personal care offered to a facility's patients. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 93.63957 percent of its residents. This is a bit lower than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.96 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
This facility received slightly below average inspections in recent years. We gave them a C in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. This place was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in category J, K or L. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to put resident health or safety in imminent harm or jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we assessed was short-term care, was this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a D in that area. In calculating these short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Based on its grade in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 37 percent of its residents returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Benjamin Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better