Rowley Memorial Masonic Home

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. The nursing rating considers a variety of subcategories. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

This nursing home also didn't perform terribly in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B- for that area, which happens to be among its better scores. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most critical for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The third category we looked at is long-term care, in which this facility received an F. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 80.985916 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points lower than what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

In our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F here. For places that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was assessed one category J or K deficiency, which rank among the worst deficiencies. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.