Maple Springs of Wasilla

To pair with a strong overall grade, we gave this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. It does not look like we have deficiency data for this facility. Without having access to complete deficiency related data for this nursing home, it is difficult to evaluate the place in terms of this category.

Building on its impressive resume, this place also excelled in nursing. In fact, we gave it an B+ for that category. Our nursing rating is largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the third category, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

The final area we scored was long-term care, which was this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Nevertheless, we wouldn't assess this facility based only on a single bad area, as it was given many excellent grades in other areas. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted vaccination data. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.