Magnolia Lane Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Magnolia Lane Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Morganton, North Carolina. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road rating. As far as we can see, this facility ought to be a good fit for quite a few people. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's next highest area is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. This facility is above the national average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse staffing provided to its patients. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 42 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed admirably in this metric.

The last category we looked at is long-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is obviously a major disappointment. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.44 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.