Continuing Care at Maris Grove

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 64.804474 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also wanted to note the fact that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive score of A+ in this area. In calculating these short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. In computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the number of hours nurses are seeing residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Pennsylvania in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a patient more often.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it received an A. This wrapped up a straight A report card for this facility. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.