Manning Gardens Care Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing score weighs a handful of subcategories, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to this facility's list of accomplishments, it also was given a top-shelf long-term care score. We gave them a dominant grade of A- in this category. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.62069 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility fared well in the category of short-term care also. Consequently, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our most elite grades. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In the last category we assessed, this nursing home received a good grade in the area of inspections as well. We awarded it a B- for that category. Our inspection scores are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.