Calvert Manor Health Care Cent

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category typically have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Contributing to its profile, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. Our short-term care scores are important for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing rating weighs a host of factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we graded is long-term care. This nursing home was given an above average long-term care rating in our assessment, with a B-. Although this was not nearly as good as many of its other grades, this is still an acceptable grade in this category. In the area of long-term care, we assess the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.53162 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.