Grosvenor Park Health Center

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we want to note its excellent short-term care score. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also was given an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.734695 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 facility Massachusetts in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a resident even once per day.

Lastly, we also wanted to emphasize this nursing home's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them a B+ in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.