Newark Manor Nursing Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating includes many datapoints, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. 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 facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

To add to its first-rate achievements in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A- for our short-term care rating. In computing these short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Tallying yet another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Few facilities fared better in this area. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

The next area we rated is long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 96.90266 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.