Magnolia Haven Health and Rehabilitation Center

This facility received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially would like to point out its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies 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.

This nursing home also received a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B in this area. Our short-term care ratings are probably most important for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our stronger grades in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 77.666664 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we assessed was nursing, in which this facility was awarded a B. This nursing home didn't prove to have any weak areas. Our nursing score weighs a handful of data points, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.