Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth is located in Plymouth, Indiana. This city has 23,599 people. With an overall score of B+, this facility should work for most people. You can definitely do much worse than this nursing home. This place is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
- Adult Day Care
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility truly excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Not many facilities performed better in this area. Short-term care grades are generally used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at was long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
The next category we looked at is nursing, where this nursing home received a grade of B-. Although this wound up being its lowest category grade, this is still not a bad grade. The nursing rating is based on many subcategories, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared with most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this statistic. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving patients even once per day.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 7.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term patients which suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 3.93% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a fall which resulted in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 1.87% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be skewed for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 13.18% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 21.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 12.89% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 91.48% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 15.74% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate erosion of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 15.7% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 1.46 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 15.7 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 11.29 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Miller's Merry Manor-Plymouth, 73.78% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center - PlymouthAcute Care Hospitals 0.91 miles away1915 Lake Ave Plymouth Indiana 46563Voluntary non-profit - Church(574) 948-4000
- Michiana Behavioral Health CenterPsychiatric 1.88 miles away1800 N Oak Rd Plymouth Indiana 46563Voluntary non-profit - Other(574) 936-3784
- Community Hospital of Bremen IncCritical Access Hospitals 11.96 miles away1020 High Rd Bremen Indiana 46506Voluntary non-profit - Private(574) 546-2211
- Starke HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.17 miles away102 E Culver Rd Knox Indiana 46534Proprietary(574) 772-1102
- Woodlawn HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.6 miles away1400 E 9th St Rochester Indiana 46975Government - Local(574) 223-3141
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Nephrology - Marshall County2.49 miles away2855 Miller Drive, Ste 209 Plymouth Indiana 46563CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (574) 936-2754
- Dsi - Knox Dialysis15.71 miles away1008 S Edgewood Drive Knox Indiana 46534Dialysis Stations: 9 (574) 772-2480