Mary Anna Nursing Home

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.969696 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its recent inspections. We awarded it an A for that category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. We were not able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. Although this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this metric. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning residents more frequently.

The final area we looked at turned out to be this facility's weakest area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it a respectable grade of B- in short-term care. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.