Cedar Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

On top of being a strong facility overall, it also earned A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually flawless. Inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we graded this nursing home so well is that it was awarded a dominant short-term care score. Indeed, short-term care is its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we gave them one of our stronger scores in our long-term care category as well, with a B+. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 70.19231 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we expected but still a decent percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we analyzed was nursing. In that category, we gave this facility a solid grade of C. This proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. The nursing rating analyzes many factors, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is not an impressive total. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.