The Maples at Har-Ber Meadows

This facility earned an inspection score which is stronger than its overall grade. Inspection ratings are based on a nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had favorable view of this facility's inspections.

This facility also received an impressive score in our long-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in this category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 94.214874 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. The nursing rating consists of several factors, but the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we rated is short-term care, which proved to be a low point for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of just D for short-term care. Short-term care ratings are critical for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With its score in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.