Fox Run Manor

This nursing home earned an elite short-term care score. In fact, we gave this nursing home an A in this area, which really helped its overall score. In computing our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

We also want to emphasize this place's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this area. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident even once per day.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of D in long-term care, rendering this its worst area. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.93252 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.