Milford Center

Milford Center is a large nursing home located in Milford, Massachusetts. This is a strong nursing home with a grade of B+ overall. We were pleased to learn that many of the other nursing homes in Milford received similar grades. This place truly has plenty of good features. We were also pleased to find that this facility did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

One of the reasons this place is a quality facility is that it received an impressive inspection rating. Inspections is its best category. In that category, we awarded it an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's above average category scores came in the area of short-term care. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this nursing home performed much more favorably. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 58.1 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we awarded them one of our higher grades in that category, with a score of B+. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.79487 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.98 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility was given an acceptable nursing grade. Even though this is not nearly as good as several of its other category grades, this is really not a bad grade. The nursing rating assesses many components, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.