Manchester Manor Convalescent Hospital

Even though this facility's overall grade was not great, it actually earned a good score in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. This one of its few redeeming features. Our short-term care scores are important for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an B. There are a number of subcategories included in this category. Most of the subcategories relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. We gave it a grade of just D for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh many items on the facility's inspection reports. When you see severe deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we also need to point out that this place received significant government fines recently in excess of $50,000. This typically indicates that government inspectors grew tired after multiple years of bad inspections.

The next area we graded was long-term care. This facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that category. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. One of the data points we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 84.02367 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.