Marion Manor Nursing Home

Marion Manor Nursing Home is one of six available nursing homes in Marion, Ohio. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective patients. Based on the data we reviewed, you can do much worse than this facility. This facility is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We gave them a grade of A+ in this category. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 3.32 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this category, this number may be skewed for some facilities based on the preexisting medical conditions of patients.

Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also performed at a high level in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Our inspection ratings are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Facilities that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. In computing a facility's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning residents more frequently.

The next area we graded was short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home an acceptable grade of C. This ended up being this facility's least impressive area. Our short-term care scores are presumably most critical for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it performed respectably with 48.4 percent of its patients returning home.