Ivy Woods Manor

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

This nursing home ended up receiving a rock-bottom grade in our long-term care area. It was given an F in this category. Nursing homes that don't score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 49.833885 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. When determining a facility's nursing score, we look at the number of hours nurses commit to residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we assessed was short-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a very poor score. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a grade of this caliber in this category, we were not shocked to learn that this nursing home was below average in several staffing figures we assess. The facility provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.