The Orchards at Redford

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. The nursing score includes a handful of datapoints, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

This nursing home's next most favorable category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was given a grade of C. Short-term care grades are crucial for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 3.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

This facility earned its third best category score in inspections. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave this nursing home a C in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories J through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to put patient safety or health in immediate harm or jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This nursing home's worst area was long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. In this area, we gave this facility a grade of just D. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. One of the data points we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 41.72932 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.