Hallmark Manor

This nursing home's nursing score outpaced its overall rating. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for its nursing score, which is one of our better scores. We looked at the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in determining our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, we also wanted to note that this facility was given positive short-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more impressive scores in that category, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best score. Our short-term care grades are important for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We also gave this nursing home a solid score in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's personal care rather than the highly skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 99.68354 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this ended up being this facility's weakest link. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We gave this nursing home just a D in this category, which is not a very good grade. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. Generally, you should be most cautious when considering a facility with severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Finally, this facility also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.