Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center is a large non-profit facility located in Peabody, Massachusetts. It looks like this is a very good nursing home. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average rating. Impressively, the nursing homes in Peabody received high scores across the board, making this one of the better places in Massachusetts to find a nursing home. As you can find below, this facility also performed well in our category scores. It's hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.
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Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Catheter Care
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent short-term care grade. We gave them an A- in this category. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also performed well in inspections. It received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A-. Few nursing homes with an overall score in this range performed as well in multiple categories. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
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Nurse Quality
Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing grade analyzes quite a few factors, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident even once per day.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the fourth category, this nursing home also excelled in the long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a B+ in this area. This topped off a very strong profile. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.520386 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 10.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This gauges the percent of long-term patients who have pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 3.6% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are routinely associated with poor nursing care. More supervision can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 1.05% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often the result of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic could also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 21.87% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 18.03% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 0.26% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are showing signs of depression. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 93.89% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 11.08% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 10.96% of Residents
This is the percentage of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 10.96% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 6.15% of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center, 81.64% of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Peabody, MA
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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- Massachusetts General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.08 miles away55 Fruit Street Boston Massachusetts 02114Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 726-2000
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- Cambridge Health AllianceAcute Care Hospitals 13.29 miles away1493 Cambridge Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Government - Local(617) 665-2300
Nearby Dialysis
- Peabody Dialysis Center0.41 miles away19-a Centennial Drive Peabody Massachusetts 01960CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (978) 532-7663
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- North Shore Regional Dialysis Center5.11 miles away133 Brimbal Ave Unit E Beverly Massachusetts 01915CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (978) 921-2052
- North Suburban Dialysis Center (Bma Essex County)5.22 miles awayAugustine Plaza 124 Broadway, Route 1n Saugus Massachusetts 01906CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (781) 233-2877
- Fmc Services of Stoneham7.56 miles away2 Main Street Suite 100 Stoneham Massachusetts 02180CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (781) 279-2454
- Davita Woburn Dialysis10.68 miles away23 Warren Avenue Woburn Massachusetts 01801Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 935-7700
- Davita Wellington Circle Dialysis Center10.92 miles away10 Cabot Road Suite 103b Medford Massachusetts 02155CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 306-9740