Elmwood Manor Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. This is one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+'s. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. We assessed the levels of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below average. Finally, while this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic.

The next category we graded is short-term care, which is a low point for this facility. We gave this facility a D in the area of short-term care, making this the nursing home's worst area. We would still suggest that you consider all of a nursing home's grades. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this place provided less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.