Magnolia Health and Rehabilitation Center

Although this nursing home's overall grade is not a highlight, it received a slightly more favorable score in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for that category, which is not bad. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This facility received 10 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

One of this nursing home's better category grades was in the area of short-term care. This wound up being its second best category. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care, where this facility received a B- in this area. In the category of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of care offered by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.84393 percent of its patients, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last area we rated is nursing. This nursing home was given a C in this category. We assessed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This place averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a resident at least once a day.