Mayflower Place Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
579 Buck Island Road, West Yarmouth MA 02673 · (508) 957-7007 · 84.86% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Mayflower Place Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home located in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts. This facility is ranked among the most impressive nursing homes we looked at. Being awarded an A+ in our grading scheme requires first-rate scores across the board. We flat out can not say enough great things about this facility. Scroll down to find this facility's category ratings, which also impressed us. You just can't do much better than a straight A report card.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 72 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
We also found that this facility excelled at short-term care. We awarded them an A+ in this category. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is considered to be a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The last datapoint we looked at in this category 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 nursing home in Massachusetts in this area with 67.1 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
This facility also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This grade is based on the facility's inspection reports. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provides an incredible 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing high levels of care, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These statistics are generally good measures of the quality of nursing care a nursing home offers.
Long-term Care Quality
In the final category we rated, this facility received an impressive grade grade of A in our long-term care category. With this score, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A report card. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. This nursing home's vaccination data weren't as favorable as its nursing hours data. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 88.97059 percent of its residents. We'd like to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.3 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mayflower Place Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents which suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of long-term care residents that suffered from urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between facilities due to reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who were given antianxiety medication. These medications are typically given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better