York Manor Nursing Home

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors 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.

This nursing home also performed well in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed more favorably in this area. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 80 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a few points below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.13 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this facility received a grade of just D in that category. Our short-term care grades are important for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

This nursing home's worst category was nursing, which is the final area we scored. For this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. We weighed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. In addition to receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this nursing home was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.