County Manor Rehabilitation & Hcc

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this very important category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This place provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Roughly a quarter of these hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled nurses. This is a high ratio of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours performed by these types of nurses more in computing our nursing grades. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was awarded a strong short-term care grade. This actually ended up being this facility's third best category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. With our short-term care rating, we try to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This place provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in New Jersey in this area with 58 percent of its patients returning home.

In the final category we scored, this facility received an impressive grade grade of A in our long-term care category. With this score, the nursing home finished off a straight A profile. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.