Desert Manor

Unfortunately, we gave this facility some really poor grades. Among them were its F for its short-term care grade. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this nursing home provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Among this facility's litany of abysmal grades was its F in the category of long-term care. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated only 88.888885 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

We wanted to draw your attention to this facility's inspection rating where it received an F. This usually means we found red flags on its inspection reports. For facilities that received this bad of an inspection score, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we would like to point out that this facility was assessed large government fines recently exceeding $50,000. This typically signifies that government inspectors became frustrated after multiple years of bad health inspections.

The next area we analyzed was nursing. This nursing home received a poor grade of F in that area. Our nursing rating features a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This facility provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be measures of the quality of nursing care.