Manilla Manor

Manilla Manor is the only facility we were able to find in Manilla, Iowa. We awarded this nursing home an A overall grade, ranking it in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the nation. Based on our assessment, this place is simply as good as it gets. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's exemplary profile is its long-term care score. We discuss long-term care in the next section.

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This score is based on the facility's government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the number of hours nurses are seeing residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

The next area we rated is short-term care, in which this facility was given a B-. This actually turned out to be this facility's worst area. This is nevertheless not a poor grade. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is generally a reliable measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 31.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure is below average.