The Manor Healthcare Residence

The Manor Healthcare Residence is a small nursing home located in Mexia, Texas. This nursing home turns out to be a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. This actually proved to be the highest graded facility in Mexia. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which is addressed in the next section.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional quality feature for this nursing home is that it was given an impressive short-term care score. In fact, this wound up being its second best category score. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Short-term care scores are crucial for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were quite impressed to find that this nursing home provides its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in this area with 59 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.

This facility also received an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 83.916084 percent of its patients. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.31 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

The next category we assessed is nursing. In this area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of C. This proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. When calculating our nursing scores, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.