Bourne Manor Extended Care Facility

In addition to having a decent overall score, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home received favorable nursing marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's top score. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient more frequently.

We also gave this facility a favorable grade in long-term care. This nursing home earned a grade of B in this area, which is one of our more favorable grades. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 94.13408 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is more often than not a solid assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Moving on our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. This score was detrimental to this nursing home's overall score. With nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we want to point out that this facility received significant government fines in recent years in excess of $50,000. This usually indicates that government inspectors grew tired after multiple years of bad inspections.