Miller's Merry Manor

Miller's Merry Manor is located in Culver, Indiana. This nursing home proved to be a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. Based on our analysis, you can do much worse than this nursing home. This place also received very consistent grades in each of our categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.82353 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded it one of our better grades in that category, with a score of B. Our short-term care grades are crucial for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This place fared better than most facilities with 49.3 percent of its residents returning home.

The final area we graded was nursing. This nursing home received an above average nursing rating in our assessment, with a B. This nursing home really didn't have any weak areas. Our nursing score weighs many data points, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This place fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented with better nursing care.