Maple Winds Healthcare and Rehabilitation

With an address in Portage, Pennsylvania, Maple Winds Healthcare and Rehabilitation is the sole nursing home we identified in this city. This nursing home proved to be a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this place. The best part of this nursing home's strong report card was its inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph

In addition to a strong overall grade, this nursing home also received favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category, with a B+. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Nursing scores are primarily based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was above average. Lastly, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home received an impressive short-term care grade, with a grade of B in the area. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This place excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than the average facility. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. This place performed respectably with 46 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we scored was long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B- for the area. With our long-term care assessment, we focus on the sheer volume of services offered by a nursing home, along with a few qualitative data points. One of the statistics we considered on top of this facility's very solid nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.18699 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the senior population. This combination proved to be successful as this facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.