Maywood Terrace Living Center

One of the reasons this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned a very favorable inspection grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility also was given a positive short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a B in this area, which happens to be one of our better. In crafting our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, while this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this area.

Moving on to the final category, this facility was awarded a grade of C in long-term care, which is a decent rating. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.39759 percent of its patients. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.