Manorcare Health Services-Pittsburgh

Manorcare Health Services-Pittsburgh is in the large metropolitan area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This turns out to be a respectable facility, with an overall grade of C. We wanted to point out that Pittsburgh received a city grade of B, so you may want to look at some other options in the city as well. One of the best aspects of this facility's report card is its exemplary inspection rating, which is addressed in the next section.

We want to point out that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in that area with an A. Our inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility was given its next most favorable category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this area, which is an acceptable score. In our short-term care rating, we seek to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, we found that this nursing home provided respectable levels of physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 39.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. When computing our nursing scores, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This place provides only 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below the national average. Lastly, our nursing scores also consider some quality-focused statistics. We especially look at the percentage of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these issues.

The last category we graded is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is obviously a major concern. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 77.619896 percent of its residents. This is many points below the national average. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.39 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.