Mary Anna Nursing Home

This nursing home fared well in the area of long-term care, with an A in this area. This really helped its overall grade quite a bit. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.84173 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It does not look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is not a score to write home about. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, we learned that this place provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.

The last category we looked at was nursing. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this category, which is a rock bottom score. This is certainly a major concern. The nursing score includes many factors, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home offered just 0 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This statistic is quite a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.