Bowling Green Manor

To pair with a strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspection category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many dominant scores, this nursing home was awarded a top-shelf long-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A- in this area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 89.52702 percent of its residents. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Our nursing score is based on a number of datapoints. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

Switching gears to the last area, this nursing home received an extremely favorable short-term care grade. Although this wasn't quite as strong as a few of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of our stronger grades a facility can receive. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.