Belmont Manor

One of the reasons this turned out to be a decent facility is it earned a favorable inspection score. In this category, we gave this nursing home a B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility also was given an impressive short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it a B+ in that category, which happens to be one of our better. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return 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 nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. The nursing rating weighs many subcategories, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed well in this subcategory. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving a patient more frequently.

The last area we scored is long-term care. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.