Mountain Manor Senior Residence

Although this facility's overall grade was not a highlight, it received a somewhat respectable grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for this area, which is a decent score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. We assessed the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

The next category we assessed was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Our short-term care grades are considered to be most important for individuals needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in that category. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable figure. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.