Marian Estates

Marian Estates is located in Sublimity, Oregon. With an overall score of B+, this looks like a very good nursing home. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. We were also pleased to find that this place did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories. More information about these categories is available below.

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing score weighs many components, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 5.1 hours per patient per day. This is more nursing care than nearly any other nursing home provides. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its residents sustaining falls which lead to major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility in Oregon. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was awarded a superb short-term care score. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is more often than not a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. This nursing home is respectable both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the country with 50.3 percent of its residents returning home.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it excelled in the area of inspections, with a B in that category. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area 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. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The last category we analyzed was long-term care. In this category, we gave this nursing home a decent grade of C. This turned out to be this facility's worst area. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of offering high levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 94.44444 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.