Magnolia Manor - Greenville

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility really excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 83.93939 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we expected but still a decent figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. In calculating a facility's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning residents at least once a day.

Our last category is short-term care, in which we awarded this nursing home a grade of C in that area. Our short-term care ratings are important for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.