Maple Woods Manor

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this place excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Not many nursing homes fared better in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category grade. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.232735 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a patient more frequently.

Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a B- in short-term care, which we consider to be an acceptable rating. Short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.