Hobart Miller's Merry Manor

Although we gave this nursing home a horrible overall grade, we awarded it an A- for our inspections score. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that have a long list of deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility excelled in our nursing category, where it received an D. Nursing grades are largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home ended up receiving a bottom of the barrel score in our long-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to only 83.96947 percent of its residents, which is somewhat concerning. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

The final area we rated was short-term care. This facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that category. Short-term care grades are often employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Given its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.5 percent of its residents returning home.