Academy Manor

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-. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another one of this facility's impressive category scores came in the area of short-term care. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B+. Our short-term care grade is typically used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item 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 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this category. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 76.214836 percent of its residents, which is somewhat below what we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the last area we looked at, we found that this nursing home received a solid inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from government inspectors. As a result, it received a decent grade in our inspection category with a B-. This facility didn't have any major weak links. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.