Lasell House

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also earned A+ inspections recently. Its inspections are nearly flawless. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We weren't able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more important for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this place's strengths is registered nurse hours. This facility provides more care from registered nurses than most facilities. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. It fared as well as just about any nursing home in Massachusetts with 69.5 percent of its residents returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents return home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. When computing our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This place provides an incredible 5.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of nursing care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home the country. Preventing serious falls is typically an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses and better safety protocols are in place.

In the final category we analyzed, this facility was given a very strong grade of A in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility wrapped up a straight A profile. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination statistics is superb also. In fact, it vaccinated 97.61905 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This combination proved to be effective as this facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.