Peabody Manor

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities with 74 percent of its patients returning home.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides an incredible 5.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

We gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we looked at, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of A in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility finished off a straight A profile. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. This facility's vaccination records lagged a bit behind a few of its other data points in this area, such as its nursing hours. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 82.97872 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.