Princeton Manor Healthcare Center

Although we were not high on this nursing home's overall performance, it did receive an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a B. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing grade assesses quite a few datapoints, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

This facility's next most favorable category turned out to be its long-term care score, where it was given a grade of C. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last area we assessed was short-term care, which turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. Our short-term care ratings are arguably more meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. With its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.7 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.