Harmony Manor Skilled Nursing Facility

While we were not high on this facility overall, we gave it a B- for inspections. This grade is better than the facility's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an B-. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.7 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below the national average. Finally, while this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did well in this subcategory.

This facility received its next best category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of B- in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home was awarded an acceptable long-term care grade of B-. In determining our long-term care grades, we analyze the personal care offered to the nursing home's residents. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 97.6 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.