Everett Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B for our short-term care rating. In determining these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are primarily based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We wanted to point out that this facility received a lowly F for its inspection grade. An F in this category is particularly troublesome because it typically points to red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For facilities that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility had multiple category G through L deficiencies, which rank among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by CMS had the potential to cause actual harm to residents. Lastly, we need to point out that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This usually signifies that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for several years.

The next category we looked at was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given an abysmal score here also. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 91.06529 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.