Cornwall Manor

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually flawless. Our inspection grades are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities 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 endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its high-end accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care score. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also was awarded a impressive long-term care score. In fact, this is this facility's third most impressive category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.39577 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Switching gears to our last category, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it an A- for that area. This rounded out a straight A report card. Nursing scores are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a patient at least once a day.