Community Compassion Center of Magnolia

Although this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it performed well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Sadly, this nursing home's second most respectable category was short-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With a score this poor for this category, we were not surprised to discover that this facility was below average in multiple staffing areas we assess. The nursing home offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We were surprised to find that this facility also excelled in nursing. We gave it an D for that category, which is one of our highest scores. There are several criteria within this category. Many of these criteria reflect nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we rated is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a very poor score in this category as well. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We weren't able to locate information on vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.