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.

This nursing home's long-term care rating ended up being one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.337746 percent of its residents. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing score weighs quite a few datapoints, however, the main consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is well below average. Finally, nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Switching gears to our last category, this nursing home was given a respectable short-term care score of B-. In computing our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. It does not appear that this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.