Carbondale Manor Court

In addition to having a decent overall grade, we also would like to point out that this place received favorable inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in this area, with a B+. This is a much better grade than the nursing home's overall score. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Additionally, we awarded this facility a grade of B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more impressive scores. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 91.30435 percent of its residents, which is slightly below what we anticipated. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also gave this facility an impressive score in short-term care. This nursing home earned a grade of B in this category, which turns out to be one of our better scores. Our short-term care grades are vital for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The next category we analyzed is nursing. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing rating is largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also factored in some quality-based measures in this category. While this facility did not rank well in terms of its nursing hours, it fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, this place fared better than the national average. This is typically an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.