South Dennis Healthcare is a large nursing home located in South Dennis, Massachusetts. Featuring an overall rating of C, this is likely a decent facility. You can definitely do worse than this nursing home. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its strong nursing grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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South Dennis Healthcare
- 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
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Tracheotomy Care
- Nutritional Counseling
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Nurse Quality
The main reason this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. There are several criteria within this area. Most of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving residents at least once a day.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our better grades. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 40.32258 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition, we gave this nursing home a B in our short-term care category. This is one of our higher grades. Our short-term care grade is generally used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 4.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Facility Inspections
Moving on our last category of inspections, this facility received an F here. This score was detrimental to this nursing home's overall score. When a place has this bad of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular facility was assessed 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This typically indicates that a bad performance spanned multiple years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
South Dennis Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In South Dennis Healthcare, 5.63% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of long-term patients who developed pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In South Dennis Healthcare, 5.24% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a fall which resulted in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In South Dennis Healthcare, 2.08% of Patients had UTIs
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that have suffered from UTI's. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In South Dennis Healthcare, 35.37% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In South Dennis Healthcare, 14.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In South Dennis Healthcare, 0.48% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In South Dennis Healthcare, 59.42% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In South Dennis Healthcare, 30.32% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In South Dennis Healthcare, 18.67% of Residents
This is the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In South Dennis Healthcare, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In South Dennis Healthcare, 18.67% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In South Dennis Healthcare, 21.19% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In South Dennis Healthcare, 74.71% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Cape Cod HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.01 miles away88 Lewis Bay Road Hyannis Massachusetts 02601Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 771-1800
Nearby Dialysis
- Cape Cod Artificial Kidney Center (Bma Cape Cod)6.35 miles away241 Willow Street Yarmouth Port Massachusetts 02675CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (508) 362-4535
- Fresenius Medical Care of Mashpee19.19 miles away34 Bates Road Suite 201 Mashpee Massachusetts 02649CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (508) 539-7080