Catered Manor Nursing Center

We awarded this nursing home one of our better grades in the area of short-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A-. This is notably better than its overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our short-term care grade is often employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. The nursing grade assesses many components, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a patient even once per day.

Turning to the area of long-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in that category. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.25 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

In our last category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. With an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was pulled down significantly. When a nursing home has this bad 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 facility had 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we also want to point out that this place was assessed large government fines in recent years of over $50,000. This usually signifies that government inspectors became fed up after multiple years of failed government inspections.