Haven Manor Health Care Center

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A. This is a much better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to point out that this facility received a great long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it one of our highest grades in that area with a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 94.74474 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The third area we assessed is short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility an F. This is not nearly as strong as a few of its other category scores. Candidly, this is a very bad grade. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most important for people needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we discovered that this nursing home provides fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

Turning to the final category, this facility didn't fare well. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's worst category grade. In computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the amount of time nurses spend with patients and the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided only 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.