John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center is a facility located in Braintree, Massachusetts, a city with a total of 35,744 people. It looks like this nursing home is one of the most elite facilities we assessed. It received one of the most impressive ratings that we offer. This facility proved to be one of the better nursing homes in the city, which has a decent selection of facilities. Keep reading to find this place's category ratings, which also impressed us. You just can't do any better than a straight A report card.
John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Grade: A
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- 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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Facility Inspections
Grade: A-plus
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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.
Nurse Quality
Grade: A-minus
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.
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Short-term Care Quality
Grade: A-minus
Compounding its first-rate assessment, this facility also was awarded a superb short-term care grade, with a score of A-. Short-term care grades are crucial for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Grade: A-minus
Moving on to our fourth area, this nursing home also excelled in the long-term care category. We gave it a grade of A- for this area. This rounded out truly elite report card. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 87.28323 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: B-plus
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 6.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: D
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 3.68% of Patients had Serious Falls
This measures the percentage of long-term patients that sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: A-minus
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 2.42% of Patients had UTIs
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients who experienced a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: C
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 19.05% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: A-minus
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 18.65% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care residents who are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: A+
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 1.93% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: C
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 91.44% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: B-plus
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 15.15% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: B
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 17.66% Percentage of Residents
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term care patients that were able to retain mobility. Some experts argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.
Hospitalizations
Grade: B-plus
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 1.44 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: B
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 17.66 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Grade: A-minus
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 10.93 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Grade: B-minus
In John Scott House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center , 71.35% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Braintree, MA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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