Peabody Operator

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. It does not look like we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional quality feature for this nursing home is that it received an impressive long-term care score. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category score. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 93.46405 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The third category we graded was short-term care. This facility was given an above average short-term care score, with a grade of B in the category. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The final area we scored was nursing, in which we awarded it a favorable grade of B. This nursing home truly didn't have any weak categories. Nursing scores are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented with better nursing care.