Marianna Health and Rehabilitation Center

Marianna Health and Rehabilitation Center is a large government-owned facility in Marianna, Florida. This nursing home turns out to be a grade A facility, which is a high-end rating. Based on the data we reviewed, you can not go wrong with this place. If you scroll down, you can see this facility's category ratings, which are also strong.

On top of being a great nursing home overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually perfect. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Compounding its elite assessments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. The last datapoint we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 1.74 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.

Moving on our next category, this facility was awarded a strong short-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A- in that area. Short-term care scores are important for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that it fared better than most facilities in this area with 53.7 percent of its patients returning home.

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility received an excellent nursing score. Although this isn't nearly as strong as many of its other category grades, this remains one of our more favorable scores we offer. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.