Marian Manor

With an address in Boston, Massachusetts, Marian Manor is one of a mere three available nursing homes in the city. This facility is one of the top nursing homes we assessed. This nursing home received one of the best grades we offer. Not surprisingly, this is the top facility in the city. Keep reading to see this nursing home's category grades, which are equally impressive. You just can't do much better than a straight A report card.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Massachusetts in this area with 61.2 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

On the list of its many impressive scores, this facility received first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that area. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 94.84067 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.48 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. This place provides an impressive 3.7 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Of this total, more than one fourth of these hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. We apply more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses in calculating our nursing ratings. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. This topped off a straight A report card for this place. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.