Cabot Health and Rehab

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this area with an A-. Inspection ratings are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. A deficiency-free inspection report is what we look for.

This nursing home also was given an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it a B in this area, which is one of our more favorable scores. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.683395 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. There are many subcategories included in this grade. Many of these subcategories relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care provided.

This facility's least impressive category was short-term care, which is the last category we assessed. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a D. Our short-term care scores are probably most important for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we discovered that this nursing home provides fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.5 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.