Manatawny Manor

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home's short-term care grade ended up being one of its better features. The facility was awarded a C in this area. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last area we rated was long-term care. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in that area. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated just 28.947369 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.