Cherry Hill Manor

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed this well in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Among this facility's other accomplishments is its superb short-term care score. It received one of our most favorable grades in that area, with a grade of A-. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Nursing ratings are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. This facility was given a favorable long-term care score in our assessment, with a B-. While this isn't nearly as good as some of its other category grades, this is nevertheless a respectable grade for this area. For residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.47319 percent of its patients. This is slightly less than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.