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.

Another reason we rated this facility so favorably is that it received an A+ long-term care score. This is just about as good as it gets in this area. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's 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 patients. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 83.888885 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a few points less than we anticipated but still a decent figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. In determining our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The next category we scored is short-term care. We awarded this facility an acceptable grade in that category, with a grade of C. Although this wasn't as high as several of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who ultimately 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 quite a bit below the national average.