Forest Hill Manor Health Center

Forest Hill Manor Health Center is one of a mere three available nursing homes in Pacific Grove, California. With an A+ overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top five percentile of all facilities in the country. This is really as good of a facility as you'll find. If you scroll down, you can see this nursing home's category grades, which appear to be just as impressive as its overall grade.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating analyzes quite a few components, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular facility provided 6.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the more impressive figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these statistics are impressive. In addition to offering impressive levels of nursing care, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. It performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Another reason we assessed this facility so highly is that it was given an A+ short-term care grade. This is flat out as strong as it gets in this area. Our short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. It performed as well as just about any facility in the country in this area with 62.7 percent of its patients returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this area.

The next area we assessed was long-term care. This facility also was awarded an A+ long-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to be awarded multiple A+ category grades. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. This facility's vaccination data lagged a bit behind some of its other statistics in this area, such as its nursing hours data. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 87.17949 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. This rounded out a straight A report card for this nursing home. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. Fortunately, although this place had some 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 means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.