Marian Manor
130 Dorchester Avenue, Boston MA 02127 · (617) 268-3333 · 54.88% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Boston, Massachusetts, Marian Manor is one of a mere three available nursing homes in the city. This facility is one of the top nursing homes we assessed. This nursing home received one of the best grades we offer. Not surprisingly, this is the top facility in the city. Keep reading to see this nursing home's category grades, which are equally impressive. You just can't do much better than a straight A report card.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 344 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Massachusetts in this area with 61.2 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
On the list of its many impressive scores, this facility received first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that area. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 94.84067 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.48 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. This place provides an impressive 3.7 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Of this total, more than one fourth of these hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. We apply more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses in calculating our nursing ratings. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. This topped off a straight A report card for this place. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Marian Manor Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents which were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better