Meadowbrook Manor

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A-. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of this facility's higher category grades came in the category of long-term care. This proved to be its second most favorable category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a C. In determining our long-term care grades, we look at the assistance with daily living received by a nursing home's patients. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 98.870056 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's third best category turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it received a C. In forming these short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what effect this had on quality of care. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Turning to the next category, this nursing home received a grade of C for nursing, which is an acceptable score. Our nursing score consists of a handful of factors, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. On top of ranking poorly in terms of nursing hours offered, this facility also lagged behind in certain metrics that are tied to quality of care. This place's nursing grade was pulled down by poor performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. In fact, we found that 15.329768 percent of this nursing home's patients experienced pressure ulcers. This is at least double the national average. Since many pressure ulcers can be avoided with proper nursing protocols, we reduce a facility's nursing score when we see this kind of frequency of pressure ulcers.