Bourne Manor Extended Care Facility

Part of the reason this proved to be a decent nursing home is it received a very favorable nursing rating. In fact, its nursing score is its best category. In this area, we gave this nursing home a B+. The nursing grade weighs several subcategories, but the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also received a positive long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our better. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 96.19883 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also awarded this nursing home an impressive grade in short-term care. This facility received a B in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable grades. In our short-term care assessment, we attempt to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last category we looked at is inspections. This nursing home didn't receive favorable inspections in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F in this category. Since this information is compiled by independent government inspectors, we heavily weight negative feedback in this area. This really dragged down this place's overall grade. When a facility has this poor of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we also would like to point out that this place received significant government fines recently totaling more than $100,000. This usually indicates that a nursing home's poor performance spanned more than one year.