Mercy Manor Transition Center

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an A+. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a resident more often.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Switching gears to our next area, this facility received an acceptable long-term care rating. Although this is not nearly as dominant as several of its other category grades, this is truly not a terrible score. With our long-term care category, we focus more on the volume of care provided by a nursing home, as well as a handful of qualitative metrics. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Lastly, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.