The Manor

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.03381 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our next area, this nursing home was given first-rate short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that category. Our short-term care ratings are probably more critical for residents requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Moving on to our next category, this facility received a highly favorable nursing score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in that category, giving this facility straight A's. Our nursing rating assesses quite a few data points, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.