Amelia Manor Nursing Home

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area, with an A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Our inspection scores are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this facility's higher category scores was in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. It actually performed better than most facilities in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.34513 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's second worse category was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that area. This is a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care grades are presumably most important for those requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its score in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

Moving on to the final area, this nursing home really didn't fare very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's poorest grade. The nursing rating includes a handful of data points, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients suffering pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric.