Orchard View Manor

We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in nursing, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. We weighed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in determining our rating in this area. This facility provided 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received favorable short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our better scores in this category, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's second strongest score. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is more often than not a reliable assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also was awarded a favorable long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we gave them a B in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.784485 percent of its residents, which is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on the last category of inspections, this nursing home did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection category. This dragged this nursing home's overall score down as we heavily weight this category. For facilities with poor inspection grades, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home was assessed a deficiency by CMS. We were relieved to find that it wasn't in one of the categories that suggest that it created a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This often indicates that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for multiple years.