Mansfield Place

Mansfield Place is the only nursing home located in Philippi, West Virginia. This nursing home received an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average rating. Based on our analysis, this nursing home has quite a bit going for it. Keep reading to see this facility's category ratings, which are also impressive. It would be hard to poke holes in this place's profile.

On top of a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned impressive inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's above average category grades came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we assessed is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a very positive short-term care score, with a grade of B+ in this category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services To offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This place performed respectably with 46 percent of its residents returning home.

In our last area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+ for our nursing score. This completed an elite report card. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.