Independence Manor Care Center

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

In addition, we also wanted to note that this nursing home received favorable long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B. This proved to be the facility's second strongest grade. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.37828 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care score. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Given its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.

Turning to our final area, this nursing home really didn't fare very well in this category either. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses spend with residents and the levels of training of those nurses. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.