Marshall Manor West

While this facility's overall grade was decent, 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. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our long-term care category. This is one of our higher grades. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.53 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at a few nursing quality-based metrics and this place actually excelled in some of these. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category.

This facility's weakest category is short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area. In spite of some solid grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless alarming so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. In computing these short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Given its score in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 32.5 percent of its residents returning home.