Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn
289 Elm Street,
Everett MA 02149
67.48% estimated occupancy 1
With an address in Everett, Massachusetts, The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett is the lone option we identified there. Featuring an overall score of B+, this facility should work for most people. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the country. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home also received an elite nursing score. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an A-. The nursing grade considers several factors. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a resident at least once a day.
Among this facility's other strengths is its first-rate long-term care score. We awarded them one of our best scores in that area, with a grade of A-. In a long-term care environment, the facility'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 residents. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 84.347824 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.97 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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This nursing home also performed at a high level in the area of inspections. It received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our best grades in that category with a grade of A-. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
The final category we assessed was short-term care, in which this nursing home received a grade of B-. Even though this is its least impressive category rating, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country with 50.2 percent of its residents returning home. This is a better rate than most facilities.
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 6.42% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents that suffer from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are an barometer of nursing care quality.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 3.57% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a fall which resulted in severe injury.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 2.4% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often associated with nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 19.12% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 19% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 1.96% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who are showing depressive symptoms.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 91.59% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 15.22% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 19.05% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that were able to retain mobility. Some believe that mobility is important for residents' well-being.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 19.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 10.96 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
In The Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Everett, 70.74% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
