Evergreen Manor

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our nursing rating is based on several datapoints. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility offers 3.7 hours of nursing care per patient per day, of which more than one hour was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In computing our nursing scores, we attach more weight to hours provided by registered or licensed nurses. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of A-. Very few facilities performed better in this category. Our short-term care grades are crucial for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in the country in this area with 57.2 percent of its patients returning home.

The final category we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B. Believe it or not, this turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. A facility could be doing a lot worse when their poorest grade still is better than most facilities. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.34711 percent of its patients. This is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.