Phillips Manor Nursing Home

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned a very impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A. Our inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong profile, this facility also performed well in our long-term care area. In fact, it received a grade of A in that category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third category we assessed was short-term care. Contributing to its high-end profile, this facility also excelled in this category. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- for that area. Short-term care grades are commonly used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

In the last category we graded, this facility received a very favorable grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the facility wrapped up a straight A report card. The nursing grade includes several factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.