Miller's Merry Manor

Miller's Merry Manor is a nursing home located in Plymouth, Indiana, which has 23,599 people. Featuring an overall rating of B+, this looks like a very good facility. This facility definitely has plenty of good features. We were also pleased to find that this place did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspection category. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Contributing to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was awarded a top-shelf short-term care grade. We awarded them a dominant grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations 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. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. It performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 54.1 percent of its residents returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. There are quite a few datapoints included in this grade. Most of the subcategories relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final area we scored is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a favorable long-term care rating in our assessment, with a grade of C. Although this is not nearly as good as some of its other grades, this remains a decent score for that area. Our long-term care scores are more important for folks requiring more conventional services associated with personal care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable datapoint. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.