New England Pediatric Care

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home also performed well in inspections, which is based on its inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without the deficiency data for this nursing home, it is difficult to evaluate it in this area.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home was awarded first-rate long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in this area. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. In computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a resident more often.

In the final category we graded, this nursing home was awarded an impressive grade grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility completed a very strong profile. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a meaningful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.