Marian Estates

This facility's best category grade came in the area of inspections. In this category, we gave this nursing home a B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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 second highest category we gave this facility in any category came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. It doesn't look like this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Our nursing category is based on a handful of subcategories, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, nursing scores also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Turning to our last area, this nursing home received an acceptable long-term care grade of C. Long-term care grades focus on a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.79144 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.