Boyce Manor Nursing Home

Even though we graded this nursing home extremely poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing rating this year. We gave it a C in this category. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses are seeing residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care rating and that actually wound up as its next most favorable score. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 50.364967 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit less than average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Sadly, this facility received a grade of just D in our inspection category. This is well below average grade. One of the most significant factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines of more than $50,000. This generally suggests that government inspectors grew tired after multiple years of bad health inspections.

The last category we looked at is short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. Our short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Given its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this place is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this nursing home's short-term care grade.