Madonna Manor Nursing Home

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A-. There are a number of factors included in this area. Many of the datapoints relate to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed 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.

Another one of this facility's quality category scores came in the category of short-term care. We awarded them one of our stronger scores in that category, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 4.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Moving on to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection score. In fact, inspections turned out to be one of its best category grades. In that category, we gave this facility an impressive grade of B+. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

In the last category we assessed, this facility received a very favorable grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility completed a first-rate report card. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 80.13468 percent of its patients. This is somewhat lower than we expected. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.