Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home in Rockport, Massachusetts, a city with 6,952 people. With an B+ overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top third of all nursing homes in the United States. You could definitely do much worse than this nursing home. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its nursing score, which is addressed in the next section.
Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Please note our records indicate that Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Catheter Care
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing turned out to be its best category. In that category, we gave this facility an A. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 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 place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving residents even once per day.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility was awarded a favorable long-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B+. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 96.57534 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed is short-term care. This facility was given an impressive short-term care grade in our assessment, with a grade of B-. While this is not nearly as good as many of its other grades, this remains an acceptable grade in this area. Short-term care grades are generally used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 6.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.62% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 2.45% of Patients had UTIs
This figure indicates the percent of long-term stay patients who experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indicator of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 18.96% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 18.8% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.95% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry would argue that this is a measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 91.63% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 15.18% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate deterioration of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 19.01% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 19.01 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 10.9 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center, 71.03% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Beverly Hospital CorporationAcute Care Hospitals 15.01 miles away85 Herrick Street Beverly Massachusetts 01915Voluntary non-profit - Private(978) 922-3000
- Anna Jaques HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.99 miles away25 Highland Avenue Newburyport Massachusetts 01950Voluntary non-profit - Private(978) 463-1000
- North Shore Medical Center -Acute Care Hospitals 18.32 miles away81 Highland Avenue Salem Massachusetts 01970Voluntary non-profit - Private(978) 741-1215
Nearby Dialysis
- North Shore Regional Dialysis Center14.85 miles away133 Brimbal Ave Unit E Beverly Massachusetts 01915CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (978) 921-2052
- Fmc of Newburyport17.78 miles away260 Merrimac Street Towle Building Newburyport Massachusetts 01950CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (978) 465-7030
- Davita Salem Northeast Dialysis19.07 miles away207 Highland Ave Suite 2 Salem Massachusetts 01970CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (978) 744-2075
- Fresenius Medical Care Danvers19.77 miles away75 Newbury Street Danvers Massachusetts 01923Dialysis Stations: 13 (978) 774-0350
- Peabody Dialysis Center19.83 miles away19-a Centennial Drive Peabody Massachusetts 01960CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (978) 532-7663