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The Elmhurst Healthcare

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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743 Main Street,
Melrose MA 02176

(781) 662-7500

65.77% estimated occupancy 1

The Elmhurst Healthcare is a facility located in Melrose, Massachusetts. The city has a total of 26,983 people. With an A- overall grade, we rated this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the United States. You really can not do any better than this nursing home. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its short-term care score. We discuss short-term care in the next section

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • No Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Massachusetts badge

Top Nursing Home in Massachusetts Awards 2019

Best Nursing Home in Melrose, Massachusetts badge

Best Nursing Home in Melrose, Massachusetts Awards 2019

Best Nursing Home in Massachusetts badge

Best Nursing Home in Massachusetts Awards 2020

Best Nursing Home in Melrose, Massachusetts badge

Best Nursing Home in Melrose, Massachusetts Awards 2020

Best Nursing Home in Massachusetts badge

Best Nursing Home in Massachusetts Awards 2021

Best Nursing Home in Melrose, Massachusetts badge

Best Nursing Home in Melrose, Massachusetts Awards 2021

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

In addition to being a first-rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an A+. Our short-term care ratings are probably most meaningful for people needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that category, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Switching gears to the last area, we awarded this nursing home a D for the area of long-term care. This is the facility's weakest category score. However, you shouldn't over-emphasize a single bad area. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. It does not appear that this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

The Elmhurst Healthcare Quality Metrics

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: F

In The Elmhurst Healthcare, 50% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In The Elmhurst Healthcare, 6.98% of Patients

This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: F

In The Elmhurst Healthcare, 59.5% of Resident

Measures the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

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  • Winchester HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.98 miles away41 Highland Avenue Winchester Massachusetts 01890Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 729-9000
  • Cambridge Health AllianceAcute Care Hospitals 6.42 miles away1493 Cambridge Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Government - Local(617) 665-2300
  • Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary -Acute Care Hospitals 6.83 miles away243 Charles Street Boston Massachusetts 02114Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 523-7900
  • Massachusetts General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.86 miles away55 Fruit Street Boston Massachusetts 02114Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 726-2000
  • Mount Auburn HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.03 miles away330 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 492-3500
  • Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, BurlingtonAcute Care Hospitals 7.4 miles away41 & 45 Mall Road Burlington Massachusetts 01803Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 744-5100
  • Tufts Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.75 miles away800 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts 02111Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 636-5000

Nearby Dialysis

  • North Suburban Dialysis Center (Bma Essex County)2.5 miles awayAugustine Plaza 124 Broadway, Route 1n Saugus Massachusetts 01906CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (781) 233-2877
  • Fmc Services of Stoneham3.46 miles away2 Main Street Suite 100 Stoneham Massachusetts 02180CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (781) 279-2454
  • Davita Wellington Circle Dialysis Center3.69 miles away10 Cabot Road Suite 103b Medford Massachusetts 02155CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 306-9740
  • Medford Dialysis Center (Bma Medford)4.48 miles away305 Mystic Avenue Medford Massachusetts 02155CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (781) 396-9282
  • Davita Woburn Dialysis4.73 miles away23 Warren Avenue Woburn Massachusetts 01801Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 935-7700
  • Dci Ball Square4.92 miles away643 Broadway Somerville Massachusetts 02145CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (617) 616-3600
  • Massachusetts General Hospital6.65 miles awayDialysis Unit 55 Fruit St, Bigelow 10 Boston Massachusetts 02114Dialysis Stations: 11 (617) 726-3700
  • Davita Northeast Cambridge Dialysis6.85 miles away799 Concord Avenue Cambridge Massachusetts 02138CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (617) 547-7700