Colonial Manor of Elma

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. There are a host of factors included in this category. Most of these factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our more positive scores in our long-term care category as well, with a B+. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 85.71429 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our next area, this nursing home was awarded an acceptable short-term care grade. Even though this was not nearly as elite as a few of its other category grades, this is still not a terrible score. Our short-term care scores are vital for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.