Country Manor Healthcare

With an address in Sylmar, California, Country Manor Healthcare is one of seven available nursing homes in the city. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is very favorable grade. Indeed, this proved to be the top nursing home in the city. If you scroll down, you will see this facility's category ratings, which are also strong.

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. Our nursing score looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides an impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is among the better totals in the nation. Finally, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility the nation in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care offered.

Turning to inspections, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Our inspection grades are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 29.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next category we assessed is long-term care, where this facility was awarded a B. Although this turned out to be its poorest category rating, this is nevertheless a strong score. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to offering well above average levels of nursing care, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.74608 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.74 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.