Maplewood Care Center

Maplewood Care Center is a nursing home located in Saint Paul, Minnesota which has 753,116 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A score in this range requires above average marks in most areas. Even in a city offering 33 other nursing homes, this facility really stands out. This place is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its impressive overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our nursing rating. Nursing grades are largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is among the more impressive totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by both of these figures. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this place was also above average in several of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. It performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home fared well in the category of short-term care. As a result, we awarded it a score of A for that area, which turns out to be one of our better grades. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. This nursing home is above the national average in terms of both its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 54.5 percent of its residents able to return home. This is a better rate than most nursing homes.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. This nursing home received a very good long-term care grade this year, with a C. While this isn't quite as strong as some of its other scores, this remains a respectable score in that category. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for patients in need of more traditional services associated with activities of daily living. This facility's vaccination data were a bit weaker than a few of its other statistics in this category, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 85.55555 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement in this area in the future. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. This facility did not excel here either, with 3.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes due to the medical complexity of residents.