Magnolia Estates Skilled Care

We want to point out that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in this category with an A+. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category scores was in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually outpaced most facilities in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 95.200005 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Our next category we graded was short-term care, in which this nursing home was given an F. Short-term care ratings are vital for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home 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 facility's weakest category was nursing, which is the last category we scored. We gave it an F for this area. Despite a few acceptable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless disappointing so we felt obligated to point it out. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low total nursing hours per resident, this facility had bad scores in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients having falls leading to major injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing grade.