Marquis Springfield

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home performed well in short-term care. We awarded it an A for that category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Oregon in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving patients at least once a day.

The final category we analyzed is this facility's worst area. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of C for long-term care. In the area of long-term care, we focus more on the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.36363 percent of its residents. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.