Memorial Hospital and Manor

On top of a quality overall score, this facility also received impressive health inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave them one of our better scores in this area, with a B+. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was given an impressive long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B+. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 82.87938 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is slightly below what we anticipated but still a decent figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with a score of B. In forming our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last area we scored was nursing. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this area. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.