Maverick Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Although we didn't grade this nursing home favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable grades. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 88.53755 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat lower than we expected but still a decent figure. Fortunately, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 1.97 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.

In our next category, we gave this facility an F in the area of short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 40.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final category we assessed was nursing, where this nursing home was given a rock bottom score in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is definitely a major concern. Our nursing score is primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.