Cedar Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home received an A+ inspection score. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its impressive performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for our short-term care rating. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 68.88361 percent of its residents. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we looked at was nursing, in which this nursing home received a grade of B-. Even though this ended up being its worst category grade, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. The nursing rating is based on a host of factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing scores. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are often good measures of the quality of nursing care provided.