Maplewood Center

Unfortunately, we didn't have any favorable things to say about this nursing home's overall grade or its category grades. However, with a D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is slightly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Sadly, this facility's second best category was inspections, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with one category J or K deficiency, which are among the worst categories of deficiencies. These categories mean that CMS found a deficiency which places resident health or safety in immediate jeopardy. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This generally suggests that a nursing home'sbad track record has been an issue for multiple years.

Sadly, this nursing home's third best score is short-term care. However, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared relatively poorly. Short-term care grades are commonly used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.3 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we graded was long-term care. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is an abysmal score. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 95.01247 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.