Normandy Center for Nursing and Healing

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Additionally, we also would like to note that this facility was awarded positive long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B. This proved to be the nursing home's second best grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 86.742424 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a few points below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the area of short-term care, with a grade of B-. Short-term care ratings are crucial for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we scored is nursing, proved to be this nursing home's worst category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that area. This is one of the few weak links in a quality report card. Nursing grades are largely tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This statistic is quite a bit below the national average. In addition to receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and found this place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.