Marquis Hope Village

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ in short-term care. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most important for those requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor dings aren't something to panic about.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. We assessed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable long-term care score. While this isn't nearly as strong as a few of its other scores, this is really not a major area of concern. Our long-term care scores are more critical for individuals in need of more traditional assistance associated with activities of daily living. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.