Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home is a large non-profit facility located in Chelsea, Massachusetts. This facility appears to be one of the higher-rated facilities we assessed. A score of this caliber requires high-end scores across the board. Based on our analysis, this place is just about as as good as it gets. As you will find below, this facility also performed just fine in our category grades. It's hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
17 Lafayette Avenue,
Chelsea MA 02150
97.07% estimated occupancy 1
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. 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 final item we assessed in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. This place performed as well as just about any nursing home in Massachusetts with 61.6 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
In our last category, we gave this facility a A- for our long-term care rating. This completed a very favorable profile. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 6.42% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 3.57% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term residents which experienced a fall resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 2.4% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to insufficient hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 19.12% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 19% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 1.96% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 91.59% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 15.22% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 19.05% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is important to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 19.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 10.96 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home, 70.74% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Chelsea, MA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Chelsea, Massachusetts has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Massachusetts General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.29 miles away55 Fruit Street Boston Massachusetts 02114Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 726-2000
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary -Acute Care Hospitals 3.32 miles away243 Charles Street Boston Massachusetts 02114Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 523-7900
- Tufts Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.94 miles away800 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts 02111Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 636-5000
- Cambridge Health AllianceAcute Care Hospitals 4.16 miles away1493 Cambridge Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Government - Local(617) 665-2300
- Melrosewakefield HealthcareAcute Care Hospitals 4.48 miles away585 Lebanon Street Melrose Massachusetts 02176Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 979-3000
- Boston Medical Center Corporation-Acute Care Hospitals 5.11 miles away1 Boston Medical Center Place Boston Massachusetts 02118Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 638-8000
- Mount Auburn HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.53 miles away330 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 492-3500
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.67 miles away330 Brookline Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02215Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 667-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- Massachusetts General Hospital3 miles awayDialysis Unit 55 Fruit St, Bigelow 10 Boston Massachusetts 02114Dialysis Stations: 11 (617) 726-3700
- Medford Dialysis Center (Bma Medford)3.37 miles away305 Mystic Avenue Medford Massachusetts 02155CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (781) 396-9282
- Dialysis Clinic, Inc. (Dci Boston)3.84 miles away35 Kneeland Street 5th Floor Boston Massachusetts 02111CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (617) 636-6389
- Davita Wellington Circle Dialysis Center3.99 miles away10 Cabot Road Suite 103b Medford Massachusetts 02155CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 306-9740
- Dci Ball Square4 miles away643 Broadway Somerville Massachusetts 02145CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (617) 616-3600
- Davita Boston Dialysis4.84 miles awayDialysis Unit 660 Harrison Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02118CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 37 (617) 859-7000
- North Suburban Dialysis Center (Bma Essex County)4.86 miles awayAugustine Plaza 124 Broadway, Route 1n Saugus Massachusetts 01906CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (781) 233-2877
- Brigham and Women's Hospital5.21 miles awayDialysis Unit 75 Francis Street Boston Massachusetts 02115Dialysis Stations: 7 (617) 732-6130