Edgewood Manor Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation

We want to point out that this facility earned a much better grade for long-term care than it received overall. In fact, we gave it one of our highest grades in that area with an A-. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Inspections is another area where this facility excelled. In fact, we awarded this facility an B+ for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its short-term care score. In determining these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. With a score this poor in this area, we weren't stunned to find this place was below average in multiple staffing figures we focus on. It provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The last category we scored is nursing, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is obviously very disappointing. Our nursing score assesses many components, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. To go along with its low total nursing hours per patient, this facility had really poor scores in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining falls which led to serious injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.