Colonial Manor of Elma

To pair with a favorable overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for inspections. Our inspection grades are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Adding to its impressive resume, this place also excelled in the category of nursing. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for that category. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the third category, this facility also received a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. Our short-term care scores are vital for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home received a respectable long-term care grade. Although this wasn't as impressive as many of its other grades, this is really not a terrible score. In calculating our long-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's personal care services. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.601395 percent of its residents, which is higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.