Cuba Manor

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home 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 always a good sign.

This nursing home received its second best category grade in the area of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable score. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated only 71.308014 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this facility received a grade of just D in that area. Short-term care scores are critical for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With a score of this caliber for this category, we weren't surprised to discover this place was well below average in several staffing figures we looked at. The facility offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The final area we scored was nursing. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is a very poor score. This is obviously a major disappointment. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.