Alderwood Manor

In addition to earning a great overall score, this facility really excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A. Few nursing homes did better in this category. The nursing score is based on quite a few subcategories, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Not many facilities fared more favorably in this category. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to the category of long-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in this area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated just 90.60403 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.

The last category we looked at was inspections. This did not end up being one of this facility's stronger areas. We gave it just a D in this category. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we typically take it very seriously. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed large government fines recently exceeding $50,000. This generally suggests that inspectors grew tired after multiple years of failed government inspections.