Manila Nursing Center

Manila Nursing Center is the sole option located in Manila, Arkansas. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable grade. In our view, this facility looks like a good fit for quite a few people. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We gave them a grade of A+ in this area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. While it had 2.14 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was close to the middle of the pack since it had some more complex patients.

This facility has also received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. The nursing grade is based on a host of subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also considered quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home was above average in many of the major metrics we assessed, including minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final area we scored is short-term care, which is a weak spot for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for short-term care, rendering this the nursing home's weakest category grade. We'd nevertheless suggest that you consider all of a facility's category grades. In forming these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, we learned that this facility provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 43.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.