Marian Medical Center D/P Snf

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. We weighed the licensure of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This facility boasts a really impressive 6.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly skilled levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we were able to find. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls resulting in major injury, this facility performed as well as any nursing home the nation.

We also awarded this facility a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is it provides more than seven hours of care per week from registered nurses to each resident. This is really the gold standard in this area, as it's about 50% higher than the typical place's level of registered nurse staffing. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 69.9 percent of its patients returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

In addition, this facility also earned excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best grades in that category, with a grade of A-. Our inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of C. This was this facility's least impressive area. Our long-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of care. This means a broad range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. In addition to above average nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination records are better than most nursing homes also. Indeed, this nursing home vaccinated 97.695854 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This combination proved to be effective as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.37 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.