Care One at Peabody

Care One at Peabody is a facility located in Peabody, Massachusetts, a city with a population of 50,944 people. With an overall rating of B-, this appears to be a decent nursing home. This facility has some things working in its favor. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary nursing score, which we will address in the next paragraph.

On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A. When determining a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Massachusetts in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a resident more often.

This facility also excelled in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of A- in that category, which happens to be one of our most impressive scores. In forming these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who returned home from this facility. It outperformed most facilities in this area with 52.9 percent of its patients returning home. This is a better rate than most facilities.

The third category we assessed was long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.2704 percent of its patients. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.37 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Moving on our final category of inspections, we gave this facility a D. This turned out to be this nursing home's worst grade and it really pulled its overall grade down. Our inspection score is based on the nursing home's government inspection reports. Since the information is collected by government inspectors, we weight it heavily in overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. We would scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with one category J or K deficiency, which are among the worst deficiencies. These categories mean that the government inspectors uncovered a deficiency which puts resident health or safety in immediate danger. Lastly, we also would like to point out that this facility received large government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This often signifies that a poor performance has been an issue for several years.