Ely Manor

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it didn't perform terribly in the area of short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is a decent score. Unfortunately, this was not enough to salvage its overall profile. Short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Interestingly, this facility's awful overall grade can't really be attributed to its inspection reports. We awarded it a C for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This place had 2 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

This nursing home also didn't perform terribly in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is another one its better scores. When calculating our nursing scores, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this statistic.

The final area we rated is long-term care. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this area. For residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinates 98.859314 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.