Linn Manor Care Center

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received an excellent long-term care rating. We gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.3871 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this area. Short-term care grades are typically employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final category we rated was this facility's weakest area. However, even its weakest link would actually be a strength for most nursing homes. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B in our nursing category. There are a number of data points within this category. Most of these subcategories are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a resident more often.