Magnolia Manor Nursing and Rehab Center

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility also was given a positive long-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave them a B in this category, which happens to be one of our better. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is higher than the average nursing home. 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 only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. The nursing score analyzes quite a few factors, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This facility averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility's worst category was short-term care, which is the final area we scored. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a D. Our short-term care scores are presumably most important for people in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its weak score in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.