Quincy Health and Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home received a nursing score which is stronger than its overall grade. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this area. When computing a facility's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses are with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of B+ in this area. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This facility was given its next highest category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Our short-term care grades are probably more critical for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next category we graded is long-term care. This facility received a B- in this category. Long-term care scores are based in part on the facility's volume of nursing care. This includes a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this facility provided the vaccine to just 85.63219 percent of its residents, which is several points lower than we expected. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.