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. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's next most favorable area ended up being its long-term care score, where it was awarded a grade of B-. Long-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's amount of nursing care. This includes a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 86.17886 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be several points below what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this facility received just a D in this area. With our short-term care category, we try to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Considering its grade in this area, we were not stunned to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The next category we looked at was nursing, proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This number is well below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.