Manila Healthcare Center

We want to point out that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of A+. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. This is definitely a good sign for the quality of care at this nursing home.

One of this nursing home's higher category scores came in the area of long-term care. This proved to be its second most favorable category. In that category, we awarded this facility a C. In the category of long-term care, we look at the quantity of services offered by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. We were unable to find a few metrics in calculating this place's long-term care score, so this grade might not be as accurate as our other category scores.

Sadly, this facility's third highest score is short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat badly. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. As you might expect, we found that this nursing home offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Moving on to our last area, we awarded this nursing home a D in our nursing category. This is the facility's least impressive category rating. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing scores. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.