Manor Care of Gig Harbor Wa

We gave this facility an A- in the area of short-term care. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing grades are primarily associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

This nursing home also received a decent inspection grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This nursing home was assessed 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled J through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to put patient safety or health in imminent harm or jeopardy. In the bigger picture, this inspection report definitely could be much worse.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, which was this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this facility a grade of D in this area. Of course, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 87.671234 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.