Maples Nursing Home

While we gave this facility a terrible overall score, we awarded it a C for our short-term care rating. Short-term care scores are critical for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. The nursing score includes quite a few subcategories, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we need to point out that this nursing home was assessed large government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This typically signifies that a nursing home's poor track record spanned more than one year.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care. It received a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor grade. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. We were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 88.414635 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.