Maple Winds Healthcare and Rehabilitation

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an A-. The nursing rating is based on several factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to another one of this place's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection score. Inspections proved to be one of its best category grades. We gave this facility an A-. Inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This nursing home's next highest category was short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B-. Short-term care scores are meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility's least impressive area is long-term care, which is the last category we scored. For this category, we awarded this facility a D. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is a very solid datapoint. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.