Harmony Manor Skilled Nursing Facility

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This grade is more respectable than this place's overall score. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. There are numerous datapoints within this grade. Many of the datapoints reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.6 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a decent grade of B-. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

The next area we assessed was long-term care. This nursing home received a B- for this area. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 99.15967 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.