Mabank Nursing Home

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. It does not appear that we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility a favorable score in long-term care. This nursing home received a B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more impressive grades. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. Based on the long-term care data we were able to find for this nursing home, you could do much worse than this place.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next highest score is short-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this area, it still performed somewhat poorly. Short-term care scores are meaningful for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. In this facility's case, it looks like it offered less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

The final category we assessed is nursing, which ended up being this facility's weakest category. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is clearly concerning. The nursing category analyzes several components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing scores. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.