Hathaway Manor Extended Care is a large non-profit facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts. This nursing home was given an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road grade. You can certainly do worse than this facility. Finally, this facility had an ownership change in the last year, so we'll have to see if that has any effect on its grades in the coming year.
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Hathaway Manor Extended Care
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Please note our records indicate that Hathaway Manor Extended Care 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.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's best category grade came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we gave this place a B+. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is more often than not a fair assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home was given positive long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our more favorable scores in this category, with a B. This proved to be the nursing home's second best grade. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 93.97321 percent of its residents, which is better than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is a very low figure. Lastly, nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Facility Inspections
Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received an F here. This score was very detrimental to this nursing home's overall grade. For facilities that received this poor of an inspection grade, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was assessed 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines recently of over $100,000. This typically indicates that a nursing home's bad track record has been an issue for several years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hathaway Manor Extended Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 7.58% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 6.47% of Patients had Serious Falls
This gauges the percent of long-term care residents which have suffered falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 2.8% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often the result of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 20.53% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients which are administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 21.58% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 3.21% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 86.38% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 13.04% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 19% of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 19% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 7.54% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Hathaway Manor Extended Care, 79.12% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for New Bedford, MA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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