Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek

Advantage Living Center - Battle Creek is one of six facilities located in Battle Creek, Michigan. We gave this nursing home an overall score of F. Based on our assessment, this place is not a fit for anyone. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is nursing, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

While we graded this nursing home very poorly overall, it received a somewhat respectable nursing score this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Incredibly, we awarded this facility a grade of B- for its short-term care grade, which isn't too bad of a score. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This facility was satisfactory in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered a reasonable level of care from both physical therapists and registered nurses. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared respectably with 48.2 percent of its patients returning home.

Sadly, this nursing home's third best category is long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively badly. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 91.02564 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.98 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home did not fare as well as the average nursing home.

In our final area of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. Since this information is collected by independent government inspectors, we heavily weight poor results in this area. When a facility has this poor of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This facility had several category G through L deficiencies, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies identified by CMS had the potential to pose actual harm to residents. Another area of concern is that CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.