Adams County Manor

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. It doesn't appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having access to complete information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it is difficult to assess the place in this area.

Contributing to its superb resume, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in that category. In our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a resident more often.

The next area we scored proved to be this facility's poorest category. However, even its worst category would be a highlight for many facilities. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B for our long-term care category. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.297295 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.