Cheyenne Manor

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A+. Very few nursing homes fared this well in this area. Inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its dominant profile, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- for the category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this facility was awarded an impressive score of A- in our short-term care area. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this nursing home received a strong nursing grade. We awarded it a B+ in this area, completing one of our more impressive report cards. In computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.