Cherry Hill Manor

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled at short-term care, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our short-term care grades are probably most critical for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information 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 6.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. There are a variety of criteria included in this grade. Many of the criteria reflect staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In the final category, this facility also was given a first-rate long-term care score, with a grade of A. This rounded out a very impressive profile. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.8 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.