The Village at Morrisons Cove

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing actually turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. When computing a facility's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Pennsylvania in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

Another one of this facility's quality category scores came in the category of short-term care. We awarded them one of our more positive scores in that area, with a score of B+. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category. This wrapped up a first-rate report card. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.