Maple Heights

In addition to performing well overall, this facility earned nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it received one of our highest grades in that area with a grade of A+. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. The nursing grade assesses a handful of subcategories, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was given an impressive long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade 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. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 94.366196 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last area we assessed was short-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This actually proved to be this nursing home's worst category. In our short-term care category, we attempt to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 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.