Grove Manor

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few places performed this well in this area. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded a fine long-term care grade. Indeed, this is this nursing home's second best category grade. In that area, this facility received a grade of A-. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.064514 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home received an impressive short-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in the category. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility received a decent nursing score. While this wasn't nearly as elite as some of its other scores, this is really not a major area of concern. Our nursing score weighs many subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.