Senior Care of Marlandwood East

While we were not very complementary of this nursing home's overall score, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid nursing homes with a list of deficiencies flagged. Sadly, this place was assessed a category L deficiency, which was unexpected based on its inspection grade. These are the worst type of deficiencies. This category of deficiency indicates the government inspectors found a widespread deficiency putting patient health or safety in immediate danger. Even a single serious deficiency of this nature should be taken seriously. While other aspects of this nursing home's inspection report were favorable, we have some reservations.

Additionally, we also would like to note that this nursing home received favorable long-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our higher scores in this area, with a grade of B. This proved to be the nursing home's second highest grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 93.030304 percent of its residents. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third category we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home's received an abysmal short-term care score where it was given a lowly F. Our short-term care grades are crucial for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next category we looked at was nursing, where this facility was given a very poor score in this category as well. We gave it an F in this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. In addition to its below average nursing hours, this place also earned suboptimal marks in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We found that more of this nursing home's patients suffered falls which led to serious injury. We believe that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing rating.