Gallatin Manor

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A- for its inspection grade. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home's next best category ended up being its short-term care score, where it was awarded a B-. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

The third category we looked at is long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. With our long-term care grade, we focus on the volume of services offered by a facility, along with a series of qualitative metrics. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we graded is nursing. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is not a bad grade in this category. The nursing grade weighs a variety of data points. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider some quality-focused measures. We like to look at the percentage of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these problems.