English Village Manor

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave it an A+. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This nursing home also was awarded a positive long-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that area, which is one of our better. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.579834 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's second worse category was short-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. In calculating our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. It looks like this facility was subpar in multiple staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The last category we rated is nursing. We awarded this facility a D in our nursing category, leaving this as its least impressive area. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with residents, in determining our score in this category. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.