Martha and Mary Health Service

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in our short-term care category, where it earned an A. Short-term care grades are commonly used to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home with 73.1 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections. We gave it an A- for that category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing category includes many components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility boasts an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which more than an hour of these hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average.

The final area we looked at was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. Long-term care ratings are critical for residents seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. One of the factors we considered after this nursing home's impressive nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.124725 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.