Continuing Care at Maris Grove

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility received even higher grades in our short-term care rating. In fact, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is considered to be a fair measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. We weighed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The final category we graded proved to be this facility's poorest category. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it a respectable grade of C for long-term care. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated just 76.8 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.