Royal Manor Ii

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it an A+ in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. We weren't able to track down deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this nursing home's other strengths is its elite long-term care score. It received one of our most favorable scores in that category, with a score of A. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home received its second lowest grade in the category of short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave this facility a D in this area, which is a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care ratings are vital for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Turning to our final category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D for the area of nursing. This was the nursing home's worst category score. Sadly, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall grade a bit. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. While this place did not excel in the area of nursing hours, it actually surprised us in some of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed above average in this metric, which was one redeeming quality we found in this category.