Marion Pointe

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid places that have too many severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home was awarded its next best category score in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Our third area we looked at was long-term care, in which this facility was given an F. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated only 59.259262 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home really didn't perform very well in this category either. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. When computing a facility's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This particular place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This statistic is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.