Christ the King Manor

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in this area with an A. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it earned an B. The nursing rating includes several components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning patients even once per day.

The third highest area we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a C. In determining our long-term care scores, we size up the personal care received by a nursing home's patients. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.81235 percent of its residents. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's least impressive category is short-term care, which is the final area we scored. In this area, we awarded this facility a D. Our short-term care ratings are likely more critical for patients in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. It appears that this facility was subpar in many staffing metrics we focus on. It supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.9 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.