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. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this nursing home's better category scores came in the category of long-term care. This wound up being its second most favorable category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for residents in need of more traditional services associated with personal care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 79.63801 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly below the national average. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility was given a grade of just D in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With a score of this caliber in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in multiple staffing areas we assess. The nursing home provided far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final category we scored was nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This statistic is well below average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this measure.