Friendship Manor Health Care

Although this facility's overall grade was terrible, it actually performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that had too many severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it earned an D. Nursing grades are largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. 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 47.583645 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 0.01 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 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.