Magnolia Ridge

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection ratings are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Another one of this facility's higher category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.06323 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The third area we assessed is short-term care, where this facility received a C in this category. In computing our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

The last category we graded is nursing. We gave this facility a grade of D for the area of nursing, making this the facility's worst grade. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.