Centralia Manor

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Adding to its profile, this facility also received a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. With our short-term care score, we try to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Additionally, this facility also was given favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our higher grades in that category, with a score of B. 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. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 93.24895 percent of its patients. This is slightly below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this nursing home was given a decent nursing grade of C. When computing our nursing scores, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.