Marymount Manor

This nursing home received a nursing score which is stronger than its overall grade. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this area. When determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients more frequently.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 17.64706 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is somewhat below what we expected but still a respectable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's third most favorable category is its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. In forming our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Looking to our final category of inspections, we gave this nursing home just a just D, which is a relatively poor grade. Our inspection score is based on the facility's government inspection reports. Since this information is collected by independent government inspectors, we place significant weight on it in our overall grades. One of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This facility had 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines of over $100,000. This usually indicates that a facility's bad track record spanned several years.