Claremont Manor Care Center

To pair with its strong overall score, this facility received a B for its inspections rating. This is an above average score in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility received a favorable short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category with a score of B. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

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. We assessed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a resident more often.

The next area we scored was long-term care. This nursing home was given an above average long-term care rating in our assessment, with a grade of B. This facility truly didn't have any weak spots. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.