Coldwater Manor

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing grade weighs many subcategories, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place 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 typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning residents at least once a day.

This facility also was strong in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Not many facilities fared better in this category. Our short-term care grades are arguably most critical for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable long-term care grades this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Finally, we also found that this nursing home has received favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it a B in this area. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.