Marquette

On top of earning a strong overall score, this nursing home fared well in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our short-term care grade is typically used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for that area. Inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. When calculating our nursing scores, we factor in both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents more often.

This nursing home's least impressive area was long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. In this area, we gave this facility an D. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 96.183205 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.