Edinboro Manor

This facility's nursing grade is notably more impressive than its overall score. With a strong performance in this category, it received a quality score in that category with a B+. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 4.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning to our inspection category, it appears this nursing home has received respectable inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a B- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. This facility received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

The last category we rated was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in that category. This is a fair grade in this category. In determining our long-term care ratings, we scrutinize the personal care offered to a facility's patients. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.