Miller's Merry Manor

Miller's Merry Manor is a facility located in Lagrange, Indiana, a city with 12,039 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of B-. A score of this caliber requires some respectable marks. Based on our analysis, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. The best part of this facility's report card was its remarkable inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing scores are largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The third area we assessed was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B- in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 44.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

This nursing home's weakest area was long-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category. In spite of a few respectable grades in other areas, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we wanted to point it out. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home vaccinated 99.24812 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.29 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.