Blue Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center

Blue Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Stoughton, Massachusetts. We gave this facility an overall grade of D. A score of this caliber typically suggests a few concerning datapoints. Stoughton received a city grade of B, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

While this place's overall grade was not a highlight, it did receive a very good grade in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that area, which is one of our better grades. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We also awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. As it turns out, this nursing home gave the vaccine to only 82.7044 percent of its patients, which is somewhat concerning. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. When calculating our nursing ratings, we assess both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided just 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, while this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this subcategory.

The final area we rated was short-term care, where this facility was given a bottom of the barrel score in this area also. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. With its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 22.8 percent of its patients returning home.