Elmwood Manor Nursing Home

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of A-. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

In addition, we gave this facility a B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable grades. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing score features numerous factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a C in short-term care, which we consider to be a decent score. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is more often than not a reliable assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.