Marycrest Manor

In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this nursing home also performed well in our inspections category, which is based on its inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A for this category. Inspection scores are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility also received a fine short-term care score. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's second best category grade. In that category, this facility received a grade of A. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 7.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we graded is long-term care. This nursing home was given a favorable nursing score this year, with a B. While this isn't quite as dominant as some of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of the stronger grades in that area. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 48.235294 percent of its patients, which is somewhat lower than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.