Royal Wood Mill Center
800 Essex Street, Lawrence MA 01841 · (978) 686-2994 · 85.42% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Royal Wood Mill Center is in Lawrence, Massachusetts. This city has a population of 76,383 people. This nursing home is a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. This facility truly has plenty working in its favor. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong report card is its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 94 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
On top of faring well overall, this nursing home received even higher grades in the category of short-term care. In fact, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with an A-. In our short-term care rating, we try to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. This nursing home fared much better in the final datapoint we considered in this category, which was the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Massachusetts in this area with 70.7 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of the short-stay residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home earned an excellent nursing score. In fact, we gave it an B+ in that category. Nursing grades are mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Facility Inspections
Furthermore, this facility also received impressive inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a B. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we scored was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a B. This facility didn't prove to have any real weaknesses. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 58.46154 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. The last datapoint we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.66 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Royal Wood Mill Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better