Eastgate Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation

With an address in Washington, Indiana, Eastgate Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation is one of five available nursing homes there. We gave this nursing home a C overall, which isn't a bad grade. This is comparable with the city grade in Washington, which is a B-. Based on all of the relevant data, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. This place didn't fare well in all of our categories, but it did not receive any terrible grades either. More information about these categories is available below.

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility also was given a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded them a B in this area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This place performed decently in this metric, with 45.5 percent of its patients returning home.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing rating also includes some applicable quality-based measures. While this nursing home excelled in terms of quantity of nursing hours, it fell short in certain datapoints that related to quality. This place's nursing rating was pulled down by poor performance in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers. We found that 15.2 percent of this facility's residents suffered from pressure ulcers. Since some pressure ulcers can be avoided with proper nursing protocols, we reduce a facility's nursing grade when we see this kind of prevalence of pressure ulcers.

The next area we assessed was long-term care, which was this facility's weakest area. We gave this facility a D in that area. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.01961 percent of its residents. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was far less favorable. Here we found that this facility had 2.45 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.