Care One at Concord

Care One at Concord is in Concord, Massachusetts. The city has a population of 17,726 people. With an A+ overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. We can not find many negative things to say about this nursing home. Its scores are just impeccable. Scroll down to find this facility's category grades, which are equally impressive. You just can't do much better than a straight A profile.

On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with an impressive grade of A. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This facility excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is generally an excellent sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 64.2 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Lastly, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Tallying yet another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we scored, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility completed a straight A profile. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 91.54929 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a few points lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.35 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.