Carriage House Manor

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher scores in that category, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to point out that this nursing home was awarded a great long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it one of our most favorable scores in that area with a score of A-. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we graded was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of C. Short-term care grades are typically used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. It doesn't appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Moving on to the last category, this nursing home really did not perform very well. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's poorest category. Our nursing score includes several factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these scores pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.