Logan Manor Community Health Services

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed this well in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was strong in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Few facilities received a better grade in this area. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 94.392525 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The third category we looked at was short-term care. This facility received a favorable short-term care score, with a B+ in the category. Our short-term care ratings are likely more meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In the final category, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our nursing score. This completed an elite report card. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.