Manorcare Health Services-Euclid Beach

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an C. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home'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, nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. This facility's received a bottom of the barrel long-term care score where it received an F. Facilities that don't score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 82.520325 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.

The final category we scored was short-term care, in which this facility received a poor score in this category as well. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously a major concern. With our short-term care rating, we seek to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. As you might expect, we found that this facility provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.