Montclair Manor Care Center

On top of performing well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, we gave it one of our highest grades in this area with a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on our third area, this nursing home was awarded an excellent short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A- in that area. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

In our final category, this nursing home also was awarded a very strong long-term care grade, with a B+. This wrapped up a very impressive report card. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.