Magnolia Manor - Spartanburg

Although this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it received a slightly more favorable grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for that area, which is not bad. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

One of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the area of short-term care. This wound up being its second most respectable category. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The real question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home was awarded its next highest category grade in the category of long-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this category, which is a decent score. With our long-term care category, we look at the amount of care provided by a nursing home, along with a handful of qualitative measures. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility administered the vaccine to 94.791664 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable datapoint. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Switching gears to the next category, this nursing home was given a C for nursing, which is a respectable score. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a relatively low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did well in this area. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a resident at least once a day.