Friendship Manor Health Care

Although we gave this facility a horrible overall score, we gave it an A- for our inspections score. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an F. Nursing grades are largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility ended up receiving a rock-bottom score in our long-term care area. It was given an F in this category. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We discovered that this facility gave the vaccine to only 71.31474 percent of its residents, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.

The last category we graded is short-term care. It received a lowly F in this area, which is an abysmal grade. Short-term care grades are important for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its abysmal rating in this area, we were not stunned to find this facility provides significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.