Highland Manor Care and Rehabilitation Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this place an A+ for inspections. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given a strong score of A in our long-term care area. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.67442 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility 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 generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving residents even once per day.

Moving on to the last category, this facility also excelled in our short-term care category. We awarded it a B+ in this area. This finalized a very impressive report card. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. We weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.