Maple Grove Lodge

While we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we wanted to point out its decent government inspections in recent years. We gave it a relatively respectable score of B- in that category. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. 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.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. When calculating our nursing grades, we assess both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provided just 0 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is far below average. Lastly, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

This nursing home was awarded its third most favorable category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable score. In our short-term care score, we seek to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The question is whether this also affected quality of care. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

This facility's weakest category was long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. Nursing homes that don't score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home provided the vaccine to just 52.760735 percent of its patients, which is well below average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.