Pilgrim Manor

We awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our short-term care score. This is much more impressive than its overall score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is more often than not a solid measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. Nursing scores are mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home's third best category is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this nursing home did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection category. This ended up really pulling this nursing home's overall score down as we heavily weight this category. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by CMS had the potential to cause actual harm to patients. Finally, we also want to point out that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This generally indicates that a nursing home's bad performance spanned several years.