Alice Manor Convalescent Hospital

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another one of this facility's higher category scores was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final item we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The next best area we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to assess a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to just 25.657894 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning our last category of inspections, this facility received a terrible grade. With an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was pulled down significantly. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with a 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 patients. Finally, this facility also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.