Charleston Manor

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned first-rate inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of A+. Inspection ratings are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 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 nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a resident more often.

The third area we assessed was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B- in this area. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

The next category we scored is long-term care. We gave this nursing home a D in long-term care, making this the nursing home's weakest category. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated just 86.66667 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.