Eskaton Care Center Manzanita

On top of earning a strong overall score, this facility fared well in short-term care. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our short-term care ratings are important for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When calculating a facility's nursing rating, we assess the number of hours nurses are with residents as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we assessed was long-term care, which is this facility's worst area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that category. Nevertheless, you shouldn't judge this nursing home based only on one weak category, as it was given many impressive grades in other areas. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an above average total. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.