Catered Manor Nursing Center

We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in nursing, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our nursing grade assesses several subcategories, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also received a positive short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a B+ in that category, which is one of our better. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most meaningful for those needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next highest category we gave this nursing home in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.45055 percent of its patients. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we assessed is inspections. This facility did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This ended up pulling down this nursing home's overall grade quite a bit. When a facility has this poor of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This typically signifies that a bad track record spanned more than one year.