Mennonite Friendship Communities

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.674416 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When computing our nursing scores, we weigh both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we scored is short-term care, in which this nursing home received a B-. This actually proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. Our short-term care ratings are probably most meaningful for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.