Clara Manor Nursing Home

We were unable to award this facility any respectable grades. We wanted to note that it received an F for its inspection grade. An F in this category is alarming because it usually points to red flags on the facility's inspections. With facilities that received this poor of an inspection score, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also want to point out that this facility received significant government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This often means that a facility's poor performance has been an issue for multiple years.

We also wanted to point out this nursing home's abysmal long-term care score where it received a lowly F. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 90.18405 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

This nursing home wound up receiving a an abysmal score in our short-term care category. It received a lowly F in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation. With its grade in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.

Moving on to the last category, this facility did not perform well here either. With a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. We assessed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home offered just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than twice the national average in this datapoint. This is alarming when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a weak nursing rating.