Adams County Manor

In addition to receiving an elite overall rating, this facility also received an A+ inspection score. This is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Few facilities fared better in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 94.300514 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also received a first-rate short-term care score. This actually turned out to be its third strongest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A. Our short-term care ratings are vital for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility was given an extremely favorable nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it an A- in that area, rounding out a straight A profile. Our nursing grade features several factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 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 pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.