Marinuka Manor

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this nursing home excelled in inspections, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an A in this category. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We wish we had more information about this nursing home. Without having deficiency related data, it was a challenge to fully evaluate this facility in this category.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Nursing scores are primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it received a score of B. It outperformed most facilities in this area. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more meaningful for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we rated was long-term care. We gave this facility one of our higher grades in that area, with a B. While this was not as high as a few of this facility's other scores, it is nevertheless a positive score. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.