Manor Care Mountainside

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections are nearly perfect. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We were not able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having deficiency data for this facility, it ended up being challenging to really grade the place in this category.

Adding to its high-end achievements in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for its short-term care score. Our short-term care ratings are presumably most important for people needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B. It performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.68652 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we rated was nursing, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of B. While this turned out to be its worst category rating, this is still a favorable grade. The nursing category includes several factors, many of which are based on nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.