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 98.961426 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.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing grade. We gave this nursing home a grade of D. The nursing rating weighs a handful of factors, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility did not perform very well. Due to a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this was its poorest area. In forming these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We found that this facility was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. The last item we assessed in this area is the number 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 residents returning home.