Boyce Manor Nursing Home

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this nursing home really excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A-. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning residents more often.

Another one of this nursing home's better category scores was in the area of short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually fared better than most nursing homes in this category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. We weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The third category we assessed was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 32.163746 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category of inspections, this ended up not being this facility's worst grade. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent government inspection reports. We awarded this nursing home a C in this category. Our inspection grades are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This tells you that it avoided the more serious classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.