Marquette

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility fared well in short-term care. We awarded it an impressive grade of A for that category. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also excelled in inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our best scores. This is one of the few facilities with an overall grade in this range which earned multiple category grades this high. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our better grades in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.22481 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final area we scored was nursing, where this facility was given a B-. This proved to be this nursing home's worst area. This is still not a terrible score. We looked at the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this area.