M I Nursing & Restorative Center

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent nursing rating. We gave them a grade of A- in this area. Our nursing grade includes numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Massachusetts in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient more often.

This facility also performed well in inspections, which is based on its inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This facility is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It performed better than most facilities in this category. In calculating these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final area we graded was this facility's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it a respectable grade of B- for our long-term care category. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated just 87.772194 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.