Devlin Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home really outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best grades in this area with an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded a positive grade in our short-term care category. We gave this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This category is considered to be a useful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility also was awarded a positive grade in our long-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B in that category. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 97.897896 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Our next area is nursing, in which we gave this facility a C in this area. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.