Marion Manor Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility also received an elite long-term care grade. We gave it one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A+. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. In addition to offering very favorable levels of nursing care, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This statistic is also significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.83 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this category, this number may be skewed for some facilities due to the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

This nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its government inspections. We gave it an A for that category, which is one of our top grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The third category we graded was short-term care. In this category, where we awarded this facility a grade of D, which isn't quite as impressive as its other category grades. In our short-term care score, we seek to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we discovered that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We were surprised to find that it performed better in this area, with 52.9 percent of its patients returning home. This was just about this nursing home's sole highlight in this area.

Switching gears to the last area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in our nursing category. This is the nursing home's worst category rating. Sadly, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in determining our grade in this category. Quantity of nursing care does not appear to be the problem here. Based on the data, it looks like this place provides an above average 4.2 hours per patient daily. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes offer. Lastly, we also factored in some quality-based measures in this category. This nursing home fared well in some of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided with better nursing care.