Maple Healthcare Center

This facility's best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this area. In determining our nursing scores, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning patients more often.

We also awarded this nursing home an impressive grade in long-term care. This facility received a grade of B in this area, which turns out to be one of our more favorable scores. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also received a very favorable inspection grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category typically have few severe deficiencies. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home received a grade of C for short-term care, which we consider to be a decent rating. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is considered to be a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.