Mapleview Country Villa

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, this place was assessed a category L deficiency, which is unexpected given its inspection grade. This is the worst possible category of deficiencies. This category of deficiency indicates the government inspectors discovered a widespread deficiency placing patient health or safety in imminent danger. Any serious deficiency is a major concern. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.

Among the reasons we rated this facility so favorably is that it received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, short-term care is its second most favorable category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is frequently a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

The next category we scored is long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that area. This is one of just a few weak links in an otherwise strong profile. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.35065 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.