U-City Forest Manor

In addition to receiving a poor overall grade, we also gave this facility poor grades in our categories. In fact, it only received a D for its long-term care score, which was its best category. Facilities that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 45.741325 percent of its residents, which is well below average. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.

Unfortunately, this facility's second most favorable score is short-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still fared somewhat badly. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Based on its score in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this place is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

We wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its inspection score. An F in this category is alarming because it typically points to red flags on the facility's government inspections. When a facility has this bad of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we need to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines of over $100,000. This generally suggests that a facility's bad performance spanned multiple years.

The last category we scored is nursing, where this nursing home received a poor grade here also. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is definitely somewhat alarming. When computing our nursing scores, we factor in both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.