Friendship Manor Nursing & Rehab Center

Friendship Manor Nursing & Rehab Center is an average-sized nursing home located in National City, California. This nursing home received world class overall grade of A, making it ranked among the top facilities in the city. This really is an impressive achievement since the city features plenty of very solid facilities. Based on our assessment, you can not go wrong with this nursing home. This facility also received consistently good ratings in all four of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more important for people requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This facility excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is generally an excellent sign. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 63.8 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient daily, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of care, this nursing home was also above average in several of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

We awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The next area we assessed is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a B. Although this wound up being its least impressive category rating, this is nevertheless a good grade. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of offering elite levels of nurse staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This statistic is also significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. Although it had 3.12 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was close to the national average due to it having some more complex patients.