Marshall Medical Center D/P Snf

One of the reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this very important category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its high-end performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Overall this looks like a good option for long-term care.

The next area we assessed is short-term care. Contributing to its superb profile, this nursing home also excelled in this category. In fact, it received a of A- in the category. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is typically a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In the last category we analyzed, this facility received an impressive grade grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility rounded out a very strong report card. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.