Miller's Merry Manor - Rockport

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't 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 leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facility also excelled in our nursing category, where it earned an B. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also gave this facility a positive grade in short-term care. This facility received a B in this area, which happens to be one of our better scores. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home's least impressive area was long-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. It received an F in this area. In spite of multiple acceptable grades in other categories, this grade is still alarming so we would like to to draw your attention to it. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.