Blaire House of Worcester is a nursing home located in Worcester, Massachusetts, a city with 181,315 people. This is a good facility with a B overall. This was right in line with the city grade in Worcester. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this nursing home. The best part of this facility's strong profile was its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph
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Blaire House of Worcester
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Not many facilities performed better in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. The nursing score consists of many datapoints, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient more frequently.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our third area, this nursing home also received a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.10314 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we rated is short-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Blaire House of Worcester Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Blaire House of Worcester, 6.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Blaire House of Worcester, 3.77% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Falls are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Blaire House of Worcester, 2.05% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely linked to poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Blaire House of Worcester, 19.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used to treat a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Blaire House of Worcester, 18.54% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are typically given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Blaire House of Worcester, 2.48% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients exhibiting signs of depression. Higher rates of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Blaire House of Worcester, 91.39% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Blaire House of Worcester, 16.21% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Blaire House of Worcester, 15.75% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Blaire House of Worcester, 1.68 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Blaire House of Worcester, 15.75 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Worcester, MA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
- St Vincent HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.28 miles away123 Summer Street Worcester Massachusetts 01608Proprietary(508) 363-5000
- Umass Memorial Medical Center IncAcute Care Hospitals 2.45 miles away55 Lake Avenue North Worcester Massachusetts 01655Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 334-1000
- Marlborough HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.89 miles away157 Union Street Marlborough Massachusetts 01752Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 481-5000
- Milford Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.15 miles away14 Prospect Street Milford Massachusetts 01757Voluntary non-profit - Other(508) 473-1190
- Harrington Memorial Hospital-1Acute Care Hospitals 17.89 miles away100 South Street Southbridge Massachusetts 01550Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 765-9771
- Metrowest Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.63 miles away115 Lincoln Street Framingham Massachusetts 01701Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 383-1000
Nearby Dialysis
- Saint Vincent's Hospital1.21 miles awayHemodialysis Unit 123 Summer St, Suite 380 Worcester Massachusetts 01608Dialysis Stations: 12 (508) 363-9460
- Bio-Medical Applications of Massachusetts Inc1.26 miles away867 Grafton Street Worcester Massachusetts 01604Dialysis Stations: 16 (203) 387-9332
- Davita Shrewsbury Street Dialysis1.31 miles away267 Shrewsbury Street Worcester Massachusetts 01604Dialysis Stations: 16 (774) 530-6353
- U-Mass Memorial Health Care Systems2.07 miles awayDialysis Unit 55 Lake Avenue North Rm h7-331 Worcester Massachusetts 01655Dialysis Stations: 13 (774) 442-3814
- Freedom Center of Worcester2.17 miles away1 Innovation Drive Suite 110 Worcester Massachusetts 01605Dialysis Stations: 6 (508) 767-3950
- Davita Pdi Worcester2.72 miles away19 Glennie Street Suite A Worcester Massachusetts 01605CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 29 (508) 421-9539
- University Dialysis Center (Bma of Shrewsbury)2.84 miles away239-243 Boston Turnpike Road Shrewsbury Massachusetts 01545Dialysis Stations: 16 (508) 753-0886
- Auburn Health LLC4.47 miles away771 South Bridge Street Suite 1 Auburn Massachusetts 01501Dialysis Stations: 16 (508) 832-3604