Gil-Mor Manor

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility also received an elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an A-. When determining our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded them one of our stronger grades in that area, with a score of B+. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Another area of strength for this facility is in the area of inspections. In fact, inspections turned out to be one of its best categories. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The final category we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B. This nursing home ended up being very solid in all areas we analyzed. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.