Monroe Manor Health & Rehabilitation Center

Monroe Manor Health & Rehabilitation Center is a facility located in Monroeville, Alabama, a city with 10,738 people. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is one of the best grades that we offer. A score of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the country. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which we will address in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we awarded this facility an A. Nursing ratings are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This particular facility provided 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which was above the national average. Lastly, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. It performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home also was given a fine long-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being this facility's third strongest category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. This nursing home's vaccination records weren't as favorable a few of its other datapoints in this category, such as its nursing hours data. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 67.96117 percent of its patients. We'd like to see some improvement in this area in the future. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Switching gears to the next category, this facility was given an acceptable short-term care score. While this isn't quite as elite as many of its other category grades, this is really nothing to be ashamed of. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that it fared respectably with 46 percent of its residents returning home.