Mansfield Place

To pair with its decent overall grade, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall rating. Our inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded a positive score in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B in this area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.354836 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place 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 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, we also wanted to note that this nursing home received favorable short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more impressive grades in that area, with a grade of B. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Switching gears to our last category, this facility received a decent nursing score of C. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are indicators of the quality of nursing care.