Magnolia Senior Care

In addition to being a strong facility overall, it also earned A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly perfect. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so favorably is that it received a favorable long-term care score. In fact, long-term care is its second highest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 76.404495 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. The nursing category assesses quite a few subcategories, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared to most nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home received a respectable short-term care rating. Even though this was not as dominant as a few of its other grades, this is really nothing to be ashamed of. In forming these short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.