Menorah House

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category, where it earned an impressive grade of A+. Few facilities fared better in this category. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.649124 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a deadly health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next area we assessed is short-term care. Adding to its top-shelf resume, this facility also excelled in that area. In fact, it received a of A- in the category. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next category we rated was nursing, in which this facility was awarded a grade of B. Although this is its lowest category grade, this is still a good rating. Our nursing score considers several subcategories. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.