Hallmark Manor

While we gave this nursing home a terrible overall grade, we gave it a grade of C for our short-term care rating. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is typically a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

Incredibly, we awarded this nursing home a C for its long-term care grade, which isn't too bad of a score. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility provided the vaccine to 99.090904 percent of its residents, which is an above average figure. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is quite a bit below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final category of inspections, this nursing home had an abysmal showing. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection category. This is our most heavily weighted category in our grading system. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. Finally, we also want to point out that this place received significant government fines recently exceeding $50,000. This often suggests that government inspectors became fed up after several years of bad health inspections.