Sancta Maria Nursing Facility

Sancta Maria Nursing Facility is a facility located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has a population of 105,321 people. Featuring an overall rating of D, this is a subpar facility. Cambridge received a city grade of B+, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. The only positive thing we can really say about this nursing home is that it didn't receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

Although we did not have many positive things to say about this nursing home's overall grade, it earned a respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that area with a B-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. 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, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this nursing home an B-. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. According to staffing data, this place averaged 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Roughly a quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are among the more highly skilled nurses. These are both above average figures. Lastly, we also factored in some quality-based metrics. This nursing home scored well in a few of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home outpaced the national average. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided with better nursing care.

This nursing home's next best category is short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this area. With our short-term care grade, we try to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we looked at. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. It fared better than most nursing homes in the country with 53.2 percent of its residents returning home.

Moving on to the next area, this nursing home was awarded a grade of B- for long-term care, which we consider to be a respectable grade. In our long-term care score, we focus more on the sheer volume of care offered by a nursing home, as well as some qualitative statistics. This nursing home's vaccination records were not as impressive as its nursing hours. It provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 87.35363 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Although it had 2.27 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was more favorable.