The Waters of Dillsboro-Ross Manor

The Waters of Dillsboro-Ross Manor is a large nursing home located in Dillsboro, Indiana. We gave this facility an overall rating of F. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Dillsboro. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next section.

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility also didn't grade out poorly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a C for that area, which turned out to be among its more favorable scores. With our short-term care category, we seek to craft a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This place provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is often a great sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 31.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this is below average.

This nursing home also didn't perform terribly in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is another one its better scores. When calculating our nursing grades, we weigh both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This place provides only 3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, we also factored in a few quality-based statistics in this category. Although this place did not rank well in terms of its nursing hours, it performed much better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than average. This is usually a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided with better nursing care.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. This facility received a rock bottom grade of F in that category. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 84.539474 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points lower than the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was also a cause for concern. Here we found that this facility had 2.26 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.