Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek is an average-sized nursing home located in Battle Creek, Michigan. With a terrible overall grade of F, this nursing home didn't fare well in our assessment. As far as we can see, you would be better off to steer clear of this facility. Although this nursing home received a single encouraging category score in short-term care, which you can find more information about below.
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Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Note: Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Short-term Care Quality
Even though we gave this nursing home a terrible overall grade, we gave it a grade of B- for short-term care. Our short-term care grades are arguably more critical for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the 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 0 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.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an D. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.
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Facility Inspections
Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. With facilities that received this bad of an inspection score, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was assessed multiple category G through L deficiencies, which are among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had potential to cause actual harm to patients. Another red flag is that CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our last area, this nursing home didn't fare well here either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 90.867584 percent of its residents. This is significantly lower than what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 8.87% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 2.93% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are often associated with poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 2.23% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic may also be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 13.4% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs may be used for several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 19.66% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 3.38% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 91.02% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 12.09% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 13.78% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 1.65 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek, 13.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Nearby Hospitals
- Bronson Battle Creek HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.41 miles away300 North Avenue Battle Creek Michigan 49017Proprietary(269) 966-8000
- Oaklawn HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.59 miles away200 N Madison Marshall Michigan 49068Voluntary non-profit - Other(269) 781-4271
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Battle Creek Dialysis1.71 miles away220 Goodale Ave E Ste B Battle Creek Michigan 49037Dialysis Stations: 20 (269) 968-8401
- Fmc - Battle Creek North1.75 miles away233 Roosevelt Ave E Battle Creek Michigan 49037CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (269) 968-8860
- Fmc - Battle Creek South5.22 miles away2845 Capital Ave Sw Ste 104 Battle Creek Michigan 49015Dialysis Stations: 17 (269) 979-8865
- Oaklawn Dialysis Center10.71 miles away310 E Michigan Ave Marshall Michigan 49068Dialysis Stations: 8 (269) 789-7023
- Fmc - Gull Road19.28 miles away5010 Gull Rd Suite 6 Kalamazoo Michigan 49048Dialysis Stations: 12 (269) 382-3012