Mena Manor

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home performed well in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which is one of our most favorable grades. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. We weighed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning residents even once per day.

The last area we assessed is short-term care. This facility was awarded a very good short-term care score in our assessment, with a C. Even though this is not nearly as impressive as some of its other category grades, this remains a decent score for that area. Our short-term care scores are important for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.