Emmanuel Center for Nursing

While this nursing home received a decent overall rating, its inspections grade is notably better than its overall grade. Due to a strong inspection report this year, it received one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B+. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an B. When calculating our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

The next highest area we awarded this facility in any category came in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.9 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.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, which is a low point for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of D in long-term care. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 90.794975 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a bit lower than what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.