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.

We also wanted to note that this facility earned an impressive grade of B in our nursing category. Our nursing rating assesses quite a few components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a patient even once per day.

We also awarded this facility a middle of the pack grade in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

The final category we rated is long-term care, which is this nursing home's worst category. We gave this facility a D in this category. Sadly, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. For residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 95.726494 percent of its residents, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.