John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center is a facility located in Braintree, Massachusetts, a city with a total of 35,744 people. Sporting an overall rating of A-, this facility is ranked among the higher-rated nursing homes we assessed. This grade is better than the city grade of B+ in Braintree, which is also an impressive grade. Scroll down to see this nursing home's category ratings, which are also impressive. It's hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Oncology Care
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled at short-term care, where it received an A. In computing these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It performed better than most nursing homes in this category. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 80.0578 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly lower than we expected but still a respectable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
The final area we assessed proved to be this nursing home's poorest area. Nevertheless, even its weakest link would likely be a strength for most facilities. In fact, we gave it a strong grade of B in our nursing category. There are several data points within this area. Many of the factors relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 11.15% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an measure of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 4.91% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered to be a measure of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 0.6% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 19.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for a variety of medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 14.42% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 1.93% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 87.04% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 10.86% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate the deterioration of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 6.27% of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 6.27% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 11.35% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to assess patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 66.48% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Braintree, MA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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