Ollie Steele Burden Manor

We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility earned near flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many impressive grades, this nursing home was awarded first-rate short-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A- in that area. Our short-term care grades are likely most critical for people in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. It does not look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also was given a strong long-term care grade. This actually turned out to be its third most impressive category score. In that category, this facility received a grade of A-. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last area we rated is nursing, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of B-. This turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. This is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with patients, in determining our score in this category. This facility provides 0 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.