Marquis Care Plaza Regency

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This facility was hit with 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

We also gave this nursing home an impressive score in long-term care. This nursing home received a B in this category, which happens to be one of our higher scores. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.5842 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's third best area was its short-term care score, where it was awarded a B-. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility's least impressive area is nursing, which is the last area we assessed. We gave it an F for this category. Even with multiple respectable scores in other areas, this score is nevertheless alarming so we felt obligated to make a note of it. When determining our nursing ratings, we analyze both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This place offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. On top of receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric.