Country Manor Healthcare

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing grade is based on several subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. 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 nursing home 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 generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its first-rate assessment, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is generally a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also received first-rate government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

The last category we analyzed is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a solid grade in that category, with a grade of B-. Although this isn't as high as several of its other grades, it is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Our long-term care grades are based on the facility's amount of nursing care. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.