Monroe Manor

We wanted to point out that this nursing home' short-term care grade outpaced its overall score. We awarded it a B+ for short-term care, which is one of our better scores. This helped its overall score. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility also earned a favorable inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade proved to be its second best category. In that area, we gave this facility a B. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facilities third most favorable area is long-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this category. In crafting our long-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.1223 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable percentage. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our next category, this nursing home was awarded a grade of C for nursing, which is a respectable rating. The nursing category is based on quite a few components, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is significantly below average. In addition to ranking poorly in terms of nursing hours offered, this facility also fell short in certain subcategories that focus on quality of care. This nursing home's nursing grade was pulled down by poor performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. In fact, we found that 17.187502 percent of this nursing home's residents experienced pressure ulcers. This is at least double the average nursing home. Since many pressure ulcers can be avoided with proper nursing protocols, we reduce a nursing home's nursing grade when we see this kind of prevalence of pressure ulcers.