Community Manor

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Additionally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received positive long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a B+. This turned out to be the nursing home's second strongest score. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 48.70317 percent of its residents. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. Our nursing rating analyzes quite a few datapoints, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we looked at is short-term care. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is clearly a significant concern. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. With its weak grade in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.4 percent of its patients returning home.