Friendship Manor Health Care

Friendship Manor Health Care is a facility located in Nashville, Illinois, which has a population of 5,387 people. Featuring an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel facility. This facility doesn't seem to have much going for it. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its strong inspection grade. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility wound up receiving a a very poor grade in our long-term care area. It received a lowly F in this area. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 78.16456 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. The nursing rating features a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility averaged just 2.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low total nursing hours per resident, this place had really bad scores in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing falls leading to serious injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing score.

Moving on to the final area, this facility really did not fare well in this category either. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. With our short-term care assessment, we try to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical nursing home. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 34.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.