Shawnee Manor

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

Tragically, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is generally a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Considering its weak rating in this area, we weren't surprised to learn this facility provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility wound up receiving a rock-bottom score in our long-term care category. It received an F in this category. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 87.9056 percent of its patients. This is multiple points less than what we expected. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Switching gears to the next area, this facility really did not perform very well here either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is about as terrible as it gets. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.