Maple Springs of Wasilla

On top of being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually perfect. Our inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have deficiency data for this facility. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without having access to information regarding deficiencies, it ended up being a challenge to really grade this nursing home in the inspections category.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this facility an B+. We weighed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility was given an impressive short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area with a score of B+. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final area we rated was long-term care, in which this facility received a grade of C. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. This is still not a poor grade. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted vaccination data. Lastly, this facility excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.