Clara Manor Nursing Home

The main reason this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a resident more frequently.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category scores came in the category of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this area. In forming our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's inspection grade appears to be one of its best features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This indicates CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent danger to resident health or safety. We really did not consider anything on this nursing home's inspection reports to be too alarming.

This nursing home's least impressive area was long-term care, which is the final category we scored. In this area, we gave this nursing home a D. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 90.57377 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is quite a bit less than average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.