Marquis Care Plaza Regency

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This place was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facilities next most favorable category is long-term care. We gave it a C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. In calculating our long-term care grades, we scrutinize the assistance with daily living offered to a facility's residents. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 99.79123 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not a very good score. In crafting these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Based on its score in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next area we looked at was nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is an abysmal grade. There are a variety of data points included in this area. Most of these criteria reflect levels of nurse staffing. With only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.