Good Neighbor Home

Good Neighbor Home is a nursing home located in Manchester, Iowa, which has 8,222 people. We awarded this facility an A+ overall grade, ranking it in the top ten percent of all nursing homes in the nation. We simply can not say enough favorable things about this nursing home. Finally, this turned out to be a very consistent facility with consistent grades in all four of our categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to direct your attention to the fact that this nursing home fared very well in our long-term care category. We awarded them a dominant grade of A+ in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.18 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

Moving on our next category, this facility was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A in that category. Our short-term care grades are likely more critical for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. It performed as well as just about any facility in Iowa in this area with 57.7 percent of its patients returning home.

In the last category, this nursing home also received a first-rate nursing score, with a grade of A-. This topped off a very impressive report card. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than what is offered by most facilities. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is usually a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by offering better nursing care and a policy of moving patients more often.