Devlin Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Located in Cumberland, Maryland, Devlin Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is one of four nursing homes in this city. This is not a bad facility with a C overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Cumberland. This place seems to have a few things working in its favor. This place is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home was given its second most favorable category score in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a respectable grade. Our short-term care ratings are likely more important for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This place performed decently in this area, with 47.5 percent of its patients returning home.

This facilities third most favorable area is long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this area. Our long-term care grades are more important for individuals requiring more conventional assistance related to personal care. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable datapoint. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.58 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

The last category we rated is nursing. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. The nursing score analyzes many factors, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. While this nursing home did not have as many nursing hours as many other facilities we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator of how carefully a nursing home's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and safety protocols are in place.