Manila Nursing Center

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but it really excelled in nursing care, with an impressive grade of A in this category. Our nursing grade includes numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also want to emphasize this place's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

We also gave this facility a respectable grade in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for people needing more traditional assistance associated with personal care. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 92.23301 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.16 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

The final category we graded was short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this category. Our short-term care scores are arguably most critical for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 41.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.