Carroll Manor Nursing & Rehab

Carroll Manor Nursing & Rehab is a very-large hospital-based facility located in Washington, District of Columbia. With an overall grade of B+, this looks like a very good nursing home. Washington offers many other nursing homes, however, it is unlikely you will need to visit too many others. This one looks like a first class option. The best part of this nursing home's strong report card is its nursing grade. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This was one of the better figures we found. In addition, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these statistics are impressive. In addition to providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home was also above average in several of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These are generally reliable measures of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility performed well in our short-term care category. We awarded them a dominant grade of A+ in this category. Our short-term care scores are presumably more important for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This facility provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. This is an excellent sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country with 65.5 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our stronger scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of providing well above average levels of nursing care, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.60835 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. This combination proved to be successful as this facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the last category we assessed, this facility received a decent grade in the area of inspections as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category. Inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.