Maryhill Manor

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a fine long-term care score. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's second most impressive category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Additionally, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we gave it one of our stronger grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care scores are crucial for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final area we looked at turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- for our nursing category. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also considered a few quality-based statistics in this category. While this place did not rank well in terms of its nursing hours per resident, it performed better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, this nursing home fared better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.