Hallmark Manor

While we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its relatively favorable short-term care rating. We gave it a B in this area, which was much better than its overall score. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is often a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. There are many criteria within this category. Many of the criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared with most facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

Sadly, this nursing home's third highest score was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 98.22485 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Turning our last category of inspections, this nursing home received a grade that's as bad as it gets. For nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility had a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to patients. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines recently exceeding $50,000. This typically indicates that inspectors grew tired after multiple years of bad health inspections.