White Oak Manor - Lancaster

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility truly excelled in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Only a select group of nursing homes performed better in this area. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.826294 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we analyzed was short-term care. In this area, we gave this nursing home a decent grade of C. This actually proved to be this facility's least impressive category. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a reliable measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.