Mansfield Place

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this place excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in that category. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing score. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that area. Our nursing score is mostly based on a facility'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 measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning residents more often.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our higher grades in our long-term care category as well, with a B+. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.7033 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final area we assessed was short-term care, in which we awarded it an above average grade of B. This facility really did not have any weak links. In crafting our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.