Newark Manor Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. When calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country 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 having a system of moving a resident more frequently.

This facility was awarded impressive scores in the area of short-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it one of our highest scores in that category with a area of A-. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection grade. This turned out to be one of its best grades. In that area, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of B+. Inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, where this facility received a C. This actually was this nursing home's least impressive area. This is still nothing to be ashamed of. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.