Elmwood Manor Nursing Home

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category, where it earned an impressive grade of A+. Few facilities fared better in this category. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of skill of those nurses. This facility averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is a very low figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this metric. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a resident more often.

The final area we rated was short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a solid grade of C. This actually is this facility's least impressive category. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more important for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.