Senior Care of Marlandwood East

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Surprisingly, this nursing home was hit with a category L deficiency, which was not what we expected given its inspection rating. These are the most concerning deficiencies. This category indicates inspectors uncovered a widespread deficiency putting patient health or safety in immediate danger. Any serious deficiency is a major concern. While other aspects of this nursing home's inspection report were favorable, we have some reservations.

This facility's second most favorable area turned out to be its long-term care score, where it received a grade of B-. Long-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's amount of nursing care. This includes a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 94.7205 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third category we graded was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of C in this category. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this also impacted quality of care. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility's worst category is nursing, which is the last area we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category. In spite of a few acceptable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless alarming so we wanted to point it out. The nursing grade is based on many data points. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.