Edgewood Manor

We want to point out that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in this area with a grade of A-. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Another one of this facility's higher category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B+. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 46.842106 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. There are a host of factors included in this category. Most of these subcategories relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

This facility's worst area is short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area. Despite some acceptable scores in other areas, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we would like to to draw your attention to it. In our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this facility provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.