Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sancta Maria Nursing Facility is one of just three facilities in this city. With an overall grade of A, this is without a doubt a world class facility. You flat out can't do any better than this place. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its long-term care grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Sancta Maria Nursing Facility
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Church related
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Hemodialysis
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Long-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.507385 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
This high end nursing home also performed remarkably in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A+. Only a small group of facilities performed better in this area. In crafting our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
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Facility Inspections
Another impressive feature of this nursing home is its inspection score. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Our inspection ratings are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to our fourth area, this facility was given an extremely favorable nursing grade. In fact, we gave it an A- in this category, giving this facility straight A's. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sancta Maria Nursing Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 5.3% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 3.2% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 1.75% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used to treat a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 9.87% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 4.2% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 98.04% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 8.79% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate the erosion of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 14.08% of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who were able to retain mobility. Some would argue that the ability to move around is vital to patients health.
Hospitalizations
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 14.08% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 5.44% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Sancta Maria Nursing Facility, 80.56% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Mount Auburn HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.53 miles away330 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 492-3500
- Cambridge Health AllianceAcute Care Hospitals 2.8 miles away1493 Cambridge Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Government - Local(617) 665-2300
- St Elizabeth's Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.89 miles away736 Cambridge Street Brighton Massachusetts 02135Proprietary(617) 789-3000
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.29 miles away330 Brookline Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02215Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 667-7000
- Boston Children's HospitalChildrens 4.48 miles away300 Longwood Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02115Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 735-6000
- Brigham and Women's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.49 miles away75 Francis Street Boston Massachusetts 02115Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 732-5500
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary -Acute Care Hospitals 4.67 miles away243 Charles Street Boston Massachusetts 02114Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 523-7900
- Massachusetts General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.77 miles away55 Fruit Street Boston Massachusetts 02114Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 726-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Northeast Cambridge Dialysis0.07 miles away799 Concord Avenue Cambridge Massachusetts 02138CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (617) 547-7700
- Dci Ball Square2.38 miles away643 Broadway Somerville Massachusetts 02145CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (617) 616-3600
- The Dialysis Center at Waltham2.9 miles away135 Beaver Street, Suite 111 Waltham Massachusetts 02452Dialysis Stations: 14 (781) 642-0331
- Medford Dialysis Center (Bma Medford)3.03 miles away305 Mystic Avenue Medford Massachusetts 02155CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (781) 396-9282
- Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston3.14 miles awayDialysis Unit - Ccp 7 736 Cambridge Street Brighton Massachusetts 02135Dialysis Stations: 17 (617) 789-2592
- Davita Wellington Circle Dialysis Center3.18 miles away10 Cabot Road Suite 103b Medford Massachusetts 02155CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 306-9740
- Kidney Center3.5 miles away888 Commonwealth Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02215CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (617) 739-3000
- Davita Brookline Dialysis4.36 miles away322 Washington Street Brookline Massachusetts 02445CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (617) 734-7794