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North Woods Nursing Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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2532 Cadillac Dr,
Farwell MI 48622

(989) 588-9928

88.16% estimated occupancy 1

North Woods Nursing Center is a small facility in Farwell, Michigan. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the most impressive nursing homes we found. This facility received one of the top ratings that we offer. Based on our ratings, this facility is really as good as it gets. If you scroll down, you will see this facility's category ratings, which are equally strong as its overall score.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Dentistry
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Optometry
  • Audiology

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in Michigan Awards 2020

Top Nursing Home in Michigan badge

Top Nursing Home in Michigan Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.481865 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home 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 residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

This nursing home also was superb in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Not many facilities performed better in this area. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most meaningful for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. In computing our nursing ratings, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. 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 typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning residents at least once a day.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless government inspection. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A. With this impressive grade, this place is one of the few facilities in Michigan to earn straight A's. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

North Woods Nursing Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A+

In North Woods Nursing Center, 0% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In North Woods Nursing Center, 4.66% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents which had a fall leading to major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indication of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In North Woods Nursing Center, 3.85% of Patients had UTIs

This figure gauges the percent of long-term residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In North Woods Nursing Center, 10.7% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure measures the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: D

In North Woods Nursing Center, 28.9% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In North Woods Nursing Center, 0.53% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. High rates of depression could reveal lower quality care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In North Woods Nursing Center, 99.74% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In North Woods Nursing Center, 11.9% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the deterioration of a patient's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In North Woods Nursing Center, 19.65% of Residents

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In North Woods Nursing Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In North Woods Nursing Center, 19.65% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In North Woods Nursing Center, 16.27% of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-plus

In North Woods Nursing Center, 81.07% of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Mclaren Central MichiganAcute Care Hospitals 19.51 miles away1221 South Drive Mount Pleasant Michigan 48858Voluntary non-profit - Private(989) 772-6700

Nearby Dialysis

  • Davita - Mt Pleasant Dialysis19.4 miles away404 S Crapo St Mount Pleasant Michigan 48858CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 15 (989) 779-8724