Alice Manor Convalescent Hospital

Alice Manor Convalescent Hospital is a small nursing home in Fowler, California. Featuring an overall score of C, this is a solid facility. Based on our ratings, this facility has some redeeming qualities. The best part of this facility's profile is its stellar nursing grade. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in nursing, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our nursing score analyzes several subcategories, but the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given impressive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our better scores in this category, with a B+. This turned out to be the facility's second highest score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is more often than not a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facilities next best area was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this category. Our long-term care grades are more critical for those requiring more conventional services associated with personal care. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to only 25.657894 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we assessed was inspections. This facility did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. We gave it an F in this category. This ended up pulling down this facility's overall grade quite a bit. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular nursing home had a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Finally, this facility also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.