Country Center for Health & Rehabilitation

Country Center for Health & Rehabilitation is an average-sized nursing home in Newburyport, Massachusetts. This turns out to be an A+ rated facility, which is the most impressive score we offer. Indeed, we were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it as the number one nursing home in Newburyport. We also gave this nursing home phenomenal grades in all four of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are likely most important for residents requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This facility provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we looked at. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Massachusetts in this area with 64.6 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. The nursing score includes many subcategories, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home averages 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home 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 the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient even once per day.

Moving on to our next category, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it an A- in that category. This completed a straight A profile. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.381874 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.