Mar Ka Nursing Home

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in that area, with an A-. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

We also gave this facility a favorable grade in short-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B in this area, which turns out to be one of our higher scores. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. It performed better than most nursing homes with 51.2 percent of its patients returning home.

The last category we analyzed is long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this facility a grade of D in this category. This really was one of just a few weak points on a quality report card. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 92.66055 percent of its patients. This is slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.15 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also alarming.