Edison Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home had 6 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent danger to resident safety or health. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in that category. Unfortunately, this wound up being one of its best areas. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. As you might expect, we learned that this place offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. Nursing grades are mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home really did not fare well in this category either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility administered the vaccine to a relatively low 81.784386 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.