Coweta Manor Nursing Home

We gave this place one of our better grades in the area of long-term care, with a grade of A+. This is a much better grade than the nursing home's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility also performed well in inspections. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A-. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this facility an impressive grade of D. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses commit to patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we looked at was short-term care, ended up being this facility's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. This really was one of just a few dings on a quality profile. In our short-term care assessment, we try to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We found that this facility was below average in two of the key staffing areas we looked at. The facility supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.