Marion Manor Nursing Home

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home has received nearly flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an A in this area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Adding to its strong assessment, this nursing home also was given a dominant short-term care score, with a grade of A-. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It performed better than most nursing homes in this area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of considering 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 patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this facility was awarded a highly favorable nursing score. Even though this wasn't as elite as a few of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of the better grades a facility can receive. Our nursing rating assesses many components, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.