Maple Woods Manor

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an elite nursing rating. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an A-. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a resident even once per day.

Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed well in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that area with a score of A-. Our inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home was awarded a strong short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that area with a score of B. Short-term care scores are meaningful for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we looked at is long-term care. We gave this facility a B- in this area. In the area of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of care offered by a nursing home, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.