Maple Knoll Village

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received an A. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. In calculating these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio in this area with 66.9 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility also was superb in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Only a select group of nursing homes performed better in this area. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the well above average level of care provided by nurses and other staff at this facility, we also were happy with the facility's vaccination statistics. By way of example, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.03846 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.41 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which was among the higher figures we found. Lastly, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. For example, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

This nursing home has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. This is one of the few nursing homes in the country to receive an A- or better in every category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.