Covington Manor Health and Rehabilitation Center
5700 Wilkie Dr, Fort Wayne IN 46804 · (260) 432-7556 · 47.98% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Covington Manor Health and Rehabilitation Center is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This city is among the most populated metropolitan areas in the nation with has a total of 305,409 people. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a very poor facility. Fortunately, if you aren't impressed with this facility, there are countless other options available in this city. Even though this facility received a single encouraging category grade in short-term care, which you can find more information about below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 149 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Although this place's overall score was as bad as it gets, it didn't perform terribly in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of C for that category, which is a decent score. Unfortunately, this was not enough to save its overall profile. Short-term care grades are often used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. This place performed well in this metric with 60.2 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's inspection grade where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on its inspection reports. For facilities with bad inspection ratings, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 15 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home ended up receiving a a terrible grade in our long-term care area. It was given a lowly F in this category. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to only 81.86275 percent of its residents. We were also disappointed with the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.76 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is nearly twice the national average.
Nurse Quality
The last category we looked at is nursing. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this category. Nursing grades are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low total nursing hours per patient, this place had poor marks in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining falls leading to serious injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing score.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Covington Manor Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. However, this metric may also be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of deterioration of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better