Ipswich Care and Rehabilitation Center

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A-. The nursing grade analyzes a handful of factors, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B+. In our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Another area of strength for this facility is in the area of inspections. Inspections turned out to be one of its best categories. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

The last category we analyzed was long-term care. For that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 80.21978 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.