Gil-Mor Manor

To pair with its strong overall grade, this facility earned a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. It does not look like this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B+. Our nursing rating assesses several components, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning patients more often.

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.

Turning to our final category, this nursing home received a B- in long-term care, which is a respectable rating. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.03846 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.