Ledgewood Manor

One of the reasons this proved to be a strong nursing home is that it received a very impressive long-term care score. In fact, long-term care ended up being its best grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A-. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.319016 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A-. Nursing scores are largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this facility also earned first-rate government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The last area we analyzed was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. This proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. Our short-term care grades are presumably most important for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.