Madonna Manor

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home fared well in long-term care. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 88.888885 percent of its patients. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Building on its quality profile, this facility also received favorable health inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a B. Our inspection scores are based on items located in the a nursing home's inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an impressive short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B in this category. Our short-term care grades are probably more critical for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The next area we looked at was nursing, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. This facility didn't turn out to have any identifiable weaknesses. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving residents more often.