Calvert Manor Health Care Cent

With an address in Rising Sun, Maryland, Calvert Manor Health Care Cent is the lone option we identified in this area. We gave this facility an overall grade of B+. A score in this range requires strong scores in most areas. Based on our analysis, you can do much worse than this place. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of our major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with a strong overall score, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility received strong marks in the area of long-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it one of our best scores in that category with a area of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. This nursing home was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1.2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care grades this year. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher scores in that area, with a score of B+. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the nation in this area with 57.9 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

The next area we assessed is nursing. This nursing home received a very good nursing score in our assessment, with a grade of C. While this isn't nearly as good as many of its other scores, this remains a respectable rating for this category. When determining our nursing scores, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provides only 2.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. We like to look at the percentage of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care tends to reduce these problems.