Ely Manor

This nursing home's overall score was propped up by the fact that it has earned favorable inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area, with a B+. This is a much better grade than the nursing home's overall grade. Our inspection scores are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

In addition, we also would like to note that this facility was awarded positive short-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more favorable scores in this category, with a B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second strongest grade. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned an A+ nursing score. This is as good as it gets in this category. Nursing scores are primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to our fourth category, we awarded this nursing home a D for the area of long-term care. This was the nursing home's worst category score. Sadly, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.29329 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.