Menard Manor

To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose 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 the reasons we graded this facility so favorably is that it was awarded a very impressive long-term care score. Indeed, long-term care turned out to be its second most favorable category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the area of short-term care, with a grade of B-. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services To have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

This nursing home's weakest category was nursing, which is the final category we analyzed. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area. Despite multiple impressive grades in other areas, this score is nevertheless somewhat disappointing so we would like to to make sure you are aware. The nursing rating is based on quite a few data points, but the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This place offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Unfortunately, this nursing home also did not perform as well as we had hoped in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in this category.