Nelson Manor

The main thing propping up this facility's profile is its elite nursing grade. We gave this facility a grade of A+ in that category. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was awarded an impressive short-term care score. As a matter of fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. Our short-term care grade is often used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facilities third best area was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home administered the vaccine to only 82.8125 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we assessed is inspections. We were surprised to find that this facility received such a poor inspection rating. We gave it a grade of just just D in this category. This grade is not on par with some of this nursing home's other category grades. Inspection ratings relate to a facility's inspections. Since this information is collected by independent inspectors, we weight it pretty heavily. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. Generally, you should be most cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This particular facility had 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we would like to point out that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This generally indicates that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for several years.