Amelia Manor Nursing Home

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also received an impressive score in our long-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B in that area. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.91304 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. Our nursing grade considers a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the final area we assessed. For this area, we gave this facility a D. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It appears that this facility was below average in two of the key staffing metrics we looked at. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.