Boyce Manor Nursing Home

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent grade in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. 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. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility's next most respectable score is long-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the vaccine to just 66.92914 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing score includes a host of factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final area we assessed is short-term care. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this area. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Given its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.