Senior Care of Marion

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this facility excelled in nursing. In fact, we gave it an A for that area. Our nursing score includes quite a few factors, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Very few facilities received a better grade in this area. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another impressive feature of this nursing home is its inspection rating. In that area, we gave this facility an impressive grade of A-. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having access to complete information regarding deficiencies, it is difficult to assess the place in the inspections category.

The last category we assessed is long-term care, where this facility was awarded a B. Even though this proved to be its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless an impressive rating. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 92.85714 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.