Woodbriar Health Center is a facility in Wilmington, Massachusetts, which has a population of 22,325 people. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B-, which is a solid score. Based on our analysis, there are definitely much worse nursing homes out there. One of the highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.
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Woodbriar Health Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Pharmacy
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Facility Inspections
This facility's best category grade came in the area of government inspections. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Short-term Care Quality
In addition, we also wanted to note that this facility was awarded positive short-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our more impressive scores in this category, with a B. This proved to be the facility's second best score. Short-term care grades are commonly used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. It does not look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
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Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the number of hours of care offered.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed was long-term care. This facility was awarded a grade of B- in this category. Long-term care grades assess a facility's personal care rather than the highly skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 83.05556 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be several points below what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Woodbriar Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Woodbriar Health Center, 12.23% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Woodbriar Health Center, 2.5% of Patients had Serious Falls
This measures the percentage of long-term residents who have experienced a fall which resulted in major injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Woodbriar Health Center, 2.62% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Woodbriar Health Center, 23.77% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used to treat several conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Woodbriar Health Center, 9.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Woodbriar Health Center, 1.9% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents demonstrating signs of depression. Some would argue that this is a measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Woodbriar Health Center, 84.73% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Woodbriar Health Center, 12.46% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the decline of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Woodbriar Health Center, 18.77% of Residents
This is the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Woodbriar Health Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Woodbriar Health Center, 18.77% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Woodbriar Health Center, 9.47% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Woodbriar Health Center, 72.3% of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, BurlingtonAcute Care Hospitals 5.05 miles away41 & 45 Mall Road Burlington Massachusetts 01803Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 744-5100
- Winchester HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.29 miles away41 Highland Avenue Winchester Massachusetts 01890Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 729-9000
- Melrosewakefield HealthcareAcute Care Hospitals 6.76 miles away585 Lebanon Street Melrose Massachusetts 02176Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 979-3000
- Mount Auburn HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.57 miles away330 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 492-3500
- Cambridge Health AllianceAcute Care Hospitals 11.73 miles away1493 Cambridge Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Government - Local(617) 665-2300
- North Shore Medical Center -Acute Care Hospitals 11.8 miles away81 Highland Avenue Salem Massachusetts 01970Voluntary non-profit - Private(978) 741-1215
- Lowell General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.45 miles away295 Varnum Avenue Lowell Massachusetts 01854Voluntary non-profit - Private(978) 937-6000
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary -Acute Care Hospitals 12.83 miles away243 Charles Street Boston Massachusetts 02114Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 523-7900
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc Services of Stoneham3.3 miles away2 Main Street Suite 100 Stoneham Massachusetts 02180CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (781) 279-2454
- Davita Burlington Regional Dialysis3.78 miles away31 Mall Road-Dialysis Suite 1b Burlington Massachusetts 01803CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 270-3580
- Davita Woburn Dialysis4.52 miles away23 Warren Avenue Woburn Massachusetts 01801Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 935-7700
- North Suburban Dialysis Center (Bma Essex County)8 miles awayAugustine Plaza 124 Broadway, Route 1n Saugus Massachusetts 01906CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (781) 233-2877
- Fresenius Medical Care Danvers8.42 miles away75 Newbury Street Danvers Massachusetts 01923Dialysis Stations: 13 (978) 774-0350
- Davita Wellington Circle Dialysis Center8.66 miles away10 Cabot Road Suite 103b Medford Massachusetts 02155CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (781) 306-9740
- Fresenius Medical Care of Lowell9.15 miles away847 Rogers Street Suite 101 Lowell Massachusetts 01852CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 35 (978) 441-5100
- Peabody Dialysis Center9.46 miles away19-a Centennial Drive Peabody Massachusetts 01960CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (978) 532-7663