Maple Springs of Wasilla

Maple Springs of Wasilla is a small facility in Wasilla, Alaska. With an overall score of B, this facility is a quality option. In fact, this nursing home ended up being one of the top 25 nursing homes in Alaska. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.

To pair with its favorable overall score, we gave this place a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more information about this nursing home. Without information regarding deficiencies, it is a challenge to evaluate it in the area of inspections.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 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 when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home was given a strong short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that area with a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care, which proved to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this facility a D in that category. Sadly, this score hurt the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. It doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.