Maple Lane Nursing Home

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the category of long-term care, with a very impressive score of A- in this area. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 75.80645 percent of its residents, which is a bit below what we expected. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of D. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. With just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we graded is short-term care. It received a lowly F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is obviously a major disappointment. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more meaningful for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. In this facility's case, it looks like it provides fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.