Alice Manor Convalescent Hospital

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, we awarded this facility a grade of B+ in our short-term care category. This is one of our more favorable scores. In crafting our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The third category we analyzed is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B-. In determining these long-term care scores, we assess the facility's personal care services. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated only 25.657894 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning the last category of inspections, this facility did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in this category. This pulled this facility's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. With places that received this poor of an inspection rating, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility had one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to residents. Finally, this facility also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.