Temple Manor Nursing Home

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is associated with the nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave it an A+ for this category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Not many facilities performed more favorably in this category. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The third area we analyzed was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a D. This is not nearly as strong as some of its other category grades. In fact, this is well below average. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is frequently a meaningful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. In this nursing home's case, we found that it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last area we looked at was nursing, turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. This is one of just a couple of weak points on a strong report card. Our nursing score consists of quite a few subcategories, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. 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. Although this facility's nursing hours were below average, it surprised us in a few of the qualitative areas in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its patients are experiencing fewer pressure ulcers than most nursing homes.