Eastview Manor Care Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B+ for our long-term care rating. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.69085 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home ended up receiving a rock-bottom grade in our short-term care area. It was given a lowly F in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is frequently a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. With a grade this poor for this area, we were not shocked to discover that this nursing home was well below average in the two key staffing figures we looked at. It provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility received very weak government inspection reports in recent years, causing them to receive a lowly F for inspections. An F in this category is generally a signal that there were some red flags on the nursing home's government inspections. For nursing homes with poor inspection ratings, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This facility had 2 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also would like to point out that this facility received significant government fines in recent years amounting to over $100,000. This generally suggests that a poor performance has been an issue for several years.

The next area we assessed is nursing. This facility was given a poor grade of F in that area. Nursing grades are mostly based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.