Manor Care Health Services

This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. If it was not for this category, this facility's overall grade would have been much lower. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is typically a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility performed well in the category of nursing. In fact, we awarded it an B- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our nursing score is mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning residents more frequently.

This nursing home's second worse category is long-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average score. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 94.5098 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Moving on the last category of inspections, this facility really did not fare well. It received an F in our inspection category. This dragged this facility's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. For nursing homes with poor inspection ratings, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to residents. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently of more than $100,000. This often signifies that a bad track record spanned several years.