Maplewood Care Center

On top of faring well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in the area of short-term care. It received one of our best grades in that area with an A. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. In calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the amount of time nurses are seeing residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another area of strength for this facility is in inspections. Inspections turned out to be one of its best categories. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

This nursing home's worst area is long-term care, which is the last category we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area. Despite multiple excellent grades in other categories, this grade is still a bit concerning so we would like to to draw your attention to it. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility gave the vaccine to a relatively low 76.99115 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place 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 was its best score in this category.