Manor Care Health Services - Hyattsville

While we graded this nursing home very poorly overall, it actually earned an impressive score when it came to nursing. We awarded it a B in this area. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also didn't perform terribly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C in that category, which turned out to be among its higher grades. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The real question is whether this also affected quality of care. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Unfortunately, with a grade of D in the inspection category, this facility performed relatively poorly in that area. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with a category L deficiency, which is the worst possible category of deficiencies. This category means the government inspectors identified a widespread deficiency placing resident health or safety in imminent danger. Even one deficiency in this category can drag a facility's inspection rating down. Finally, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines totaling over $100,000. This generally signifies that a facility's bad track record has been an issue for more than one year.

The last area we assessed was long-term care, turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this facility a D in this area. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to only 83.5249 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.