Peabody Operator

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's quality category scores came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our more positive scores in that category, with a score of B+. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 81.98757 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.83 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. There are numerous factors within this area. Most of the datapoints relate to staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we looked at is short-term care. We gave this nursing home an acceptable score in that area, with a C. While this isn't on par with some of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.