Providence Marianwood

We awarded this facility an A in the short-term care category. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. Our nursing rating is based on several factors, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

This facility's next most favorable category is its long-term care grade, where it was given a C. In the category of long-term care, we focus on the amount of services provided by a facility, as opposed to more sophisticated services. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 86.85446 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent inspection reports. We gave this facility a D in this category, which is not good. Since this data is collected by independent inspectors, we take it seriously. Our inspection ratings factor in many items found on the nursing home's inspection reports. When you find severe deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular facility was hit with 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.