Orchard Manor

On top of faring well overall, this facility earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it earned one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A+. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This facility was awarded a strong long-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B+. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 85.94378 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. We looked at the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning residents more often.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home was awarded an acceptable short-term care grade. Although this was not quite as good as some of its other category grades, this is still a middle of the pack score. In our short-term care score, we try to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.