Wareham Healthcare
50 Indian Neck Road, Wareham MA 02571 · (508) 295-6264 · 65.82% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Wareham Healthcare is a large nursing home in Wareham, Massachusetts. Featuring an overall score of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Wareham. The city has just one other nursing home. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss short-term care in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 175 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
On top of receiving a poor overall score, we also gave this nursing home weak scores in our categories. It received a grade of just D for its short-term care rating, which was its best category. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. It appears that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. It supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 48.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second highest category was long-term care, but even there it earned just a D in that area. This still happens to be a relatively poor score. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 55.528847 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.67 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.
Nurse Quality
This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. There are quite a few criteria within this category. Most of the datapoints reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this area. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.
Facility Inspections
Moving on our last category of inspections, this nursing home received a horrible grade. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We would scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home had 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Wareham Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term patients which had falls leading to serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents who have had urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better