Braintree Manor Healthcare

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this facility's higher category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. It actually outpaced most facilities in this category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 64.09091 percent of its residents. This is a few points lower than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home was awarded its next highest category grade in the area of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable score. Our short-term care scores are arguably more meaningful for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Moving on the last category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. Inspection scores are based on a nursing home's recent government inspections. We gave this facility a D in this category, which is not good. Since this data is collected by independent inspectors, we tend to take it seriously. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Generally, you should be most cautious when considering a nursing home with severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This nursing home had a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by the government inspectors had the potential to cause actual harm to residents. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This often suggests that a facility's poor performance spanned more than one year.