Evansville Manor

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it excelled at short-term care. We awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. This grade kept this nursing home from receiving an even worse overall score. In crafting these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Nursing grades are largely based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This place averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection rating. Typically, this indicates we found red flags on the facility's government inspections. For nursing homes that received this poor of an inspection rating, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, we would like to point out that this place received significant government fines of more than $100,000. This often suggests that a facility's bad track record has been an issue for several years.

The last category we rated was long-term care. This nursing home received a poor grade of F in that category. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 91.42857 percent of its patients, which is slightly below what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.