Franklin Healthcare of Peabody

The main thing propping up this nursing home's profile is its elite nursing score. In fact, we awarded this facility an A+ in that category. The nursing rating considers a variety of subcategories. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Additionally, we also wanted to note that this facility was given positive short-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the facility's second best score. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility's next highest category came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a C. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 96.82539 percent of its residents, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the last category of inspections, this ended up being this facility's worst grade. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave this facility a grade of just D in this category, which is not good. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we typically take it pretty seriously. Our inspection grades factor in many items found on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. If you find too many deficiencies on the reports, this is typically a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently of over $100,000. This typically means that a nursing home's poor performance spanned more than one year.