Evansville Manor

Although we didn't give this facility a good overall score, we did give it a very strong grade in nursing, where it received a B. Nursing grades are largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving patients more frequently.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our inspections rating. This score is more respectable than the facility's overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This indicates that this facility dodged the more significant categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This facility was given its next highest category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is generally a fair measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last area we graded was long-term care. This facility received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this category. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to a relatively low 86.394554 percent of its patients, which is several points lower than we expected. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.