Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home
17 Lafayette Avenue, Chelsea MA 02150 · (617) 884-6766 · 96.01% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home is one of four available facilities in Chelsea, Massachusetts. With an overall rating of A+, this nursing home is one of the most impressive nursing homes we looked at. We were impressed enough to rank this nursing home as one of the top 50 facilities in Massachusetts. If you scroll down, you can see this nursing home's category scores, which appear to be equally impressive as its overall score.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 123 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating features a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Lastly, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility Massachusetts in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these statistics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care being provided.
Facility Inspections
The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning our third category, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care score. This is a superb grade. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is far higher than most nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.3 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
In the final area, we gave this facility an A+ for its short-term care score. This completed a first-rate report card. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. 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. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. This place performed as well as just about any nursing home in Massachusetts in this area with 56.2 percent of its patients returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better