Magnolia Manor of Marion County

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't look like we have deficiency data for this facility. Without having access to the information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it is challenging to fully evaluate it in this category.

We also awarded this facility a solid grade in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 99.579834 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home was awarded its third best category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a C in this category, which is a decent grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is typically a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

The final area we graded was nursing, which turned out to be a weak spot for this facility. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in our nursing category. When computing our nursing ratings, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. This place also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this area. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.