Emporia Presbyterian Manor

We also want to emphasize the fact that this nursing home received an impressive grade of A for nursing. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a patient more often.

In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that area with a score of A. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The last area we scored turned out to be this nursing home's poorest area. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of B- for long-term care. Our long-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's amount of care. This includes a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.