MASONICARE HEALTH CENTER (WALLINGFORD, CT) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) - Medicare Provider Charge Data

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$4,436
Connecticut:	$17,391

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$5,489
State:	$6,829

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	4.76%
State:	2.20%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$6,346
State:	$25,184

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$7,669
Connecticut:	$9,367

Number of discharges: 12

This Nursing Home:	4.40%
State:	2.02%

Heart Failure and Shock with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$5,145
Connecticut:	$23,261

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,420
Connecticut:	$8,225

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	6.23%
Connecticut:	3.23%

Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$7,388
Connecticut:	$34,260

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,382
State:	$12,013

Number of discharges: 21

This Nursing Home:	7.69%
Connecticut:	2.85%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$4,882
State:	$17,907

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$4,915
Connecticut:	$6,303

Number of discharges: 28

This Nursing Home:	10.26%
State:	3.14%

Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$3,855
Connecticut:	$16,214

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$4,361
Connecticut:	$5,761

Number of discharges: 33

This Nursing Home:	12.09%
Connecticut:	2.20%

Renal Failure with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$5,173
Connecticut:	$22,174

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$6,233
Connecticut:	$8,399

Number of discharges: 14

This Nursing Home:	5.13%
Connecticut:	2.40%

Respiratory Infections and Inflammations with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$7,211
State:	$28,675

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$8,678
State:	$11,336

Number of discharges: 33

Here:	12.09%
Connecticut:	1.30%

Respiratory Infections and Inflammations with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$8,248
State:	$39,858

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$11,973
Connecticut:	$16,055

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	6.23%
State:	1.45%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$8,110
State:	$42,041

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$11,751
Connecticut:	$15,726

Number of discharges: 13

This Nursing Home:	4.76%
Connecticut:	4.77%

Signs and Symptoms without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$3,884
State:	$17,579

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$4,446
State:	$5,795

Number of discharges: 45

This Nursing Home:	16.48%
Connecticut:	0.65%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$5,987
Connecticut:	$22,205

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,382
Connecticut:	$8,065

Number of discharges: 27

This Nursing Home:	9.89%
State:	2.98%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Fewer than 100
Survey Response Rate: 25%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	8%
State:	5%

Usually

Here:	22%
Connecticut:	19%

Always

This Nursing Home:	70%
Connecticut:	76%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	3%
Connecticut:	5%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	19%
State:	17%

Always

This Nursing Home:	78%
State:	78%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	17%
State:	11%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	32%
Connecticut:	28%

Always

This Nursing Home:	51%
Connecticut:	61%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Usually

This Nursing Home:	41%
Connecticut:	25%

Always

This Nursing Home:	59%
State:	69%

How often did staff explain about medicines before giving them to patients?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	14%
Connecticut:	21%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	28%
Connecticut:	20%

Always

This Nursing Home:	58%
State:	59%

How often were the patients' rooms and bathrooms kept clean?

Sometimes or never

Here:	9%
State:	8%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	19%
State:	21%

Always

Here:	72%
Connecticut:	71%

How often was the area around patients' rooms kept quiet at night?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	21%
State:	16%

Usually

Here:	27%
Connecticut:	34%

Always

This Nursing Home:	52%
State:	50%

Were patients given information about what to do during their recovery at home?

Yes

Here:	81%
Connecticut:	82%

Here:	19%
Connecticut:	18%

How do patients rate the hospital overall on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)?

6 or lower

This Nursing Home:	13%
State:	9%

7 or 8

Here:	26%
State:	25%

9 or 10

Here:	61%
Connecticut:	66%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	9%
Connecticut:	5%

Yes, probably

This Nursing Home:	29%
Connecticut:	24%

Yes, definitely

This Nursing Home:	62%
Connecticut:	71%

Process of Care

Heart Failure

Percent of patients who were given an evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

This Nursing Home:	97.0%
Connecticut:	99.5%

Pneumonia

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	91.0%
Connecticut:	91.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Nursing Home:	86.0%
State:	95.9%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Nursing Home:	10.3%
Connecticut:	11.0%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	10.7%
State:	10.9%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Nursing Home:	27.1%
Connecticut:	25.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Nursing Home:	20.6%
Connecticut:	19.0%

Complaint Deficiency

An approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure menus meet the resident's nutritional needs and that there is a prepared menu by which nutritious meals have been planned for the resident and followed
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
A two-hour-resistant firewall in common walls
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Proper backup exit lighting
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly located and lighted Exit signs
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Make sure menus meet the resident's nutritional needs and that there is a prepared menu by which nutritious meals have been planned for the resident and followed
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Follow policies and procedures to convey the resident's personal funds to the appropriate party responsible after the resident's death
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Determine if it is safe for the resident to self-administer drugs
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Protect each resident from all abuse, physical punishment, and being separated from others
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide care for residents in a way that keeps or builds each resident's dignity and respect of individuality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Develop policies and procedures for influenza and pneumococcal immunizations
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Keep all essential equipment working safely
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Exits that are free from obstructions and can be used at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Other fire safety features required by fire safety codes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exit doors that are held open by devices that will automatically close on the activation of a fire alarm or smoke detectors
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly protected cooking facilities
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exits that are free from obstructions and can be used at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Other fire safety features required by fire safety codes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Allow residents to easily view the results of the nursing home's most recent survey
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Give notice to the resident before a room or roommate change
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly located and lighted Exit signs
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly working alarms on sprinkler valves
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Restrictions on the use of flammable curtains
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Other fire safety features required by fire safety codes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Try to resolve each resident's complaints quickly
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Determine if it is safe for the resident to self-administer drugs
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Write and use policies that forbid mistreatment, neglect and abuse of residents and theft of residents' property
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide care for residents in a way that keeps or builds each resident's dignity and respect of individuality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Assist those residents who need total help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Make sure that each resident gets a nutritional and well balanced diet, unless it is not possible to do so
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Give each resident enough fluids to keep them healthy and prevent dehydration
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Operate and provide services according to Federal, State, and local laws and professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.550
State:	0.770

Number of Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.760
State:	0.777

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	1.310
Connecticut:	1.538

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.180
Connecticut:	0.108

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.180
State:	0.108

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

This Nursing Home:	20.2%
State:	17.6%

Percent of long-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

Here:	4.4%
Connecticut:	7.9%

Percent of long-stay high-risk residents with pressure ulcers

Here:	5.2%
State:	5.1%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

This Nursing Home:	9.3%
Connecticut:	6.5%

Percent of long-stay low-risk residents who lose control of their bowels or bladder

This Nursing Home:	39.8%
Connecticut:	42.0%

Percent of long-stay residents who have had a catheter inserted and left in their bladder

This Nursing Home:	2.9%
State:	2.9%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

This Nursing Home:	7.0%
Connecticut:	5.4%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

This Nursing Home:	6.8%
State:	4.9%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

Here:	3.4%
Connecticut:	3.0%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

This Nursing Home:	85.8%
Connecticut:	95.2%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

This Nursing Home:	90.0%
Connecticut:	95.0%

Percent of short-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

Here:	17.5%
Connecticut:	21.5%

Percent of short-stay residents with Pressure ulcers that are new or worsened

Here:	2.9%
State:	1.1%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

Here:	85.1%
State:	85.5%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

This Nursing Home:	86.2%
State:	82.1%

Percent of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	2.3%
State:	2.6%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	29.4%
State:	25.2%

MASONICARE HEALTH CENTER - WALLINGFORD, CT

Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) - Medicare Provider Charge Data

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Process of Care

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Outcome of Care

Complaint Deficiency

Staff Information

Quality Measures

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