Mooreland Heritage Manor

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing grades are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, we gave this nursing home a grade of B in our short-term care category. This is one of our better scores. Our short-term care grade is often employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its long-term care grade, which is well below average in this category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 93.87755 percent of its patients. This is slightly less than we anticipated but still a decent figure. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

The final category we assessed is inspections. This facility did not receive favorable government inspection reports in recent years. We gave it an F in this category. This dragged down this facility's overall score quite a bit. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We suggest you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines recently of more than $100,000. This typically means that a bad track record has been an issue for more than one year.