Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center is a facility in Bedford, Massachusetts, a city with a population of 13,221 people. It looks like this nursing home is among the most elite nursing homes we assessed. A score of this caliber requires first-rate scores across the board. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. Headlining this facility's exemplary report card is its nursing grade, which we will address in the next section.
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Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center
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- Independent Living
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Aquatic Therapy
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Nurse Quality
In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. There are a host of factors included in this grade. Most of the criteria reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without having all of the deficiency related data, it was challenging to evaluate it in this area.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its short-term care grade. This is a dominant rating. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. A nursing home is doing something right when it's poorest grade still beats out most facilities. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.71989 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 4.53% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 3.66% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 10.92% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This measures the percent of long-term stay residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 15.87% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 1.14% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 99.06% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 15.77% of Patients
This is the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 14.48% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 0.57 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 14.48% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 6.19% of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center, 92.51% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's often correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, BurlingtonAcute Care Hospitals 2.73 miles away41 & 45 Mall Road Burlington Massachusetts 01803Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 744-5100
- Emerson Hospital -Acute Care Hospitals 6.94 miles away133 Old Road to 9 Acre Corner Concord Massachusetts 01742Voluntary non-profit - Private(978) 369-1400
- Winchester HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.18 miles away41 Highland Avenue Winchester Massachusetts 01890Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 729-9000
- Melrosewakefield HealthcareAcute Care Hospitals 10.13 miles away585 Lebanon Street Melrose Massachusetts 02176Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 979-3000
- Mount Auburn HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.62 miles away330 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 492-3500
- Lowell General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.03 miles away295 Varnum Avenue Lowell Massachusetts 01854Voluntary non-profit - Private(978) 937-6000
- Cambridge Health AllianceAcute Care Hospitals 11.57 miles away1493 Cambridge Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Government - Local(617) 665-2300
- Newton-Wellesley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.74 miles away2014 Washington Street Newton Lower Falls Massachusetts 02462Voluntary non-profit - Other(617) 243-6000
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Burlington Regional Dialysis3.11 miles away31 Mall Road-Dialysis Suite 1b Burlington Massachusetts 01803CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 270-3580
- Davita Woburn Dialysis5.39 miles away23 Warren Avenue Woburn Massachusetts 01801Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 935-7700
- Fresenius Medical Care Chelmsford7.54 miles away27 Industrial Ave Chelmsford Massachusetts 01824Dialysis Stations: 16 (978) 250-0981
- Dci Walden Pond7.58 miles away56 B Winthrop Street Concord Massachusetts 01742Dialysis Stations: 13 (978) 369-1683
- Fmc Services of Stoneham7.86 miles away2 Main Street Suite 100 Stoneham Massachusetts 02180CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (781) 279-2454
- The Dialysis Center at Waltham8.38 miles away135 Beaver Street, Suite 111 Waltham Massachusetts 02452Dialysis Stations: 14 (781) 642-0331
- Davita Northeast Cambridge Dialysis9.06 miles away799 Concord Avenue Cambridge Massachusetts 02138CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (617) 547-7700
- Fresenius Medical Care of Lowell9.09 miles away847 Rogers Street Suite 101 Lowell Massachusetts 01852CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 35 (978) 441-5100