Magnolia Manor

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility also received an impressive score in our long-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. There are quite a few criteria included in this category. Many of the datapoints relate to staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's weakest category was short-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. We gave it an abysmal F in this area. In spite of some acceptable scores in other categories, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Given its score in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.