Harbor House Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
11 Condito Road, Hingham MA 02043 · (781) 749-4774 · 93.59% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Harbor House Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home in Hingham, Massachusetts. Featuring an overall grade of A+, this nursing home is without a doubt a world class nursing home. We rated this facility in the 100 best nursing homes in Massachusetts, which is a distinguished list. Keep reading to find this nursing home's category grades, which also impressed us. You just can't do any better than a straight A report card.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 142 Beds
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For profit - Individual
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it earned one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of A+. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This top notch nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A+. Very few facilities fared better in this category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. This place fared as well as just about any facility in Massachusetts in this area with 65.9 percent of its residents returning home. For most nursing homes, less than half of their short-stay residents return home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. We assessed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving patients at least once a day.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we rated is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of A-. This finished off a first-rate report card. Very few facilities earned an A- or better in every category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.27047 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Harbor House Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better