Luther Manor

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Our nursing category assesses a handful of components, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home received high marks in the area of short-term care. Consequently, it was given one of our highest grades in that area with a grade of A+. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is considered to be a fair assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Moving on to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that category, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home's worst area was long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. We want to to draw your attention to this potential weak spot, however, you should not focus exclusively on a single weak area either. Our long-term care grade is often used to grade a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 82.33215 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.