Emmanuel Center for Nursing

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this place also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in this area, with a grade of A. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's above average category scores came in the area of long-term care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a score of B+. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 88.63637 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care. For that category, we gave this facility a grade of C. In our short-term care grade, we endeavor to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. 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 category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.