Powder River Manor

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home excelled at short-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A. Few facilities fared better in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. 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 final item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Nursing grades are mostly tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another area of strength for this facility is in inspections. Inspections turned out to be one of its best categories. In that category, we awarded this facility a B. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

The final category we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care rating in our assessment, with a B-. Although this is not quite as good as several of its other grades, this is still a respectable score for this category. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's personal care instead of the skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.73418 percent of its residents. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.