Prescott Manor Nursing Center

With an address in Prescott, Arkansas, Prescott Manor Nursing Center is the sole facility we were able to find in this city. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. At the end of the day, you'd be better off to avoid of this place. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is nursing, which is discussed in the next section.

Even though this nursing home's overall score was rock bottom, it didn't perform as poorly in the area of nursing. In fact, we gave it a B- for that category. Nursing grades are mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. Based on the data, it looks like this facility provides an impressive 4.2 hours per resident per day. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes offer. In computing our grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving residents at least once a day.

We were also stunned to find that this facility earned a reasonably solid long-term care grade in our assessment. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. Our long-term care grade is used to assess a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.52153 percent of its patients. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.28 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less impressive than its other scores in the long-term care area.

We were also stunned to learn that this facility earned a decent short-term care grade in our assessment. We awarded it a C in this area. In our short-term care category, we strive to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The real question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning the final category of inspections, this facility had an abysmal showing. It received an F in our inspection category. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.