Marian Manor of Taunton

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. In calculating our nursing grades, we analyze both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home received an impressive long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 82.62712 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we expected but still a decent percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we analyzed is this facility's weakest area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it a decent grade of B- for short-term care. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 3.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below average.