Maple Grove Lodge

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This tells you inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to present an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of short-term care. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to create a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. With a grade in this range in this area, we were not shocked to discover this nursing home was well below average in several staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.

Another concern is the F this facility was given in the area of long-term care. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 54.594593 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

The last category we scored is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. Nursing scores are largely associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these statistics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.