Located in Canton, Massachusetts, Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is one of just a few available nursing homes in the area. With an overall grade of B, this facility is a quality choice. You can certainly do much worse than this facility. The best aspect of this facility's impressive report card is its long-term care rating. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph
Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in the area of long-term care. It earned one of our best scores in that area with an A. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 88.983055 percent of its patients. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A-. When computing our nursing ratings, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Our short-term care scores are probably more important for people requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
Facility Inspections
Turning to the final category of inspections, this was not one of this facility's better grades. Inspection grades are based on a facility's recent inspections. We awarded this nursing home a C in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 6.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 3.68% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 2.42% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of long-term residents which sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 19.05% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to patients for a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 18.65% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 1.93% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing symptoms of depression. Many would argue that this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 91.44% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 15.15% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 17.66% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that maintained mobility. Some experts believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 1.44 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to preserving the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 17.66 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 10.93 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Hellenic Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 71.35% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts believe this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Norwood HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.17 miles away800 Washington Street Norwood Massachusetts 02062Proprietary(781) 769-4000
- Westwood Pembroke Health SystemsPsychiatric 4.85 miles away45 Clapboardtree Street Westwood Massachusetts 02090Proprietary(617) 762-7764
- Good Samaritan Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.25 miles away235 North Pearl Street Brockton Massachusetts 02301Proprietary(508) 427-3000
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton IncAcute Care Hospitals 7.44 miles away199 Reedsdale Road Milton Massachusetts 02186Government - Federal(617) 696-4600
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - NeedhamAcute Care Hospitals 9.08 miles away148 Chestnut Street Needham Heights Massachusetts 02494Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 453-3002
- Carney HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.24 miles away2100 Dorchester Avenue Dorchester Center Massachusetts 02124Proprietary(617) 506-2000
- Signature Healthcare Brockton HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.63 miles away680 Center Street Brockton Massachusetts 02302Voluntary non-profit - Other(508) 941-7000
- Brigham and Women's Faulkner HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.8 miles away1153 Centre Street Jamaica Plain Massachusetts 02130Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 983-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- Pure Life Renal of Stoughton, LLC3.57 miles awayMed. Office Bldg Suite m107 907 Sumner Street Stoughton Massachusetts 02072CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (781) 341-8550
- Westwood Dialysis Center (Bma Westwood)3.97 miles away90 Glacier Drive Westwood Massachusetts 02090CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (781) 326-9985
- Brockton Regional Kidney Center6.58 miles away76 Campanelli Industrial Drive Brockton Massachusetts 02301CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (508) 427-5329
- Brockton Dialysis Center, LLC6.67 miles away375 Westgate Drive Brockton Massachusetts 02301Dialysis Stations: 19 (508) 586-2791
- Us Renal Care Foxborough Dialysis8.64 miles away10 Lincoln Rd Suite 101 Foxboro Massachusetts 02035Dialysis Stations: 9 (774) 215-5696
- Boston Dialysis Center (Bma Boston)9.28 miles away2100 Dorchester Avenue 1 South Dorchester Center Massachusetts 02124CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (617) 298-2475
- South Suburban Dialysis Facility10.1 miles away(Bma Quincy) 241 Parkingway Quincy Massachusetts 02169Dialysis Stations: 20 (617) 847-1700
- Quality Care Dialysis Center10.2 miles awayUnit 1 Stetson West 2 West Street Unit 1 South Weymouth Massachusetts 02190CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 15 (781) 331-4100