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Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-minus
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Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca's website

805 West Ave,
Big Rapids MI 49307

(231) 796-3185

58.5% estimated occupancy 1

Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca is a senior living facility in Big Rapids, Michigan, which has 20,112 people. Featuring an overall rating of B-, this is a decent nursing home. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its strong short-term care grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Speech Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

This facility really excelled at short-term care, with an impressive grade of A- in this area. This really propped up its overall score. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B+. Our nursing score is based on quite a few datapoints, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents more frequently.

Facility Inspections

Grade: C

This facility received somewhat favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them a decent score in that area, with a grade of C. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This nursing home had 3 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled J through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to place 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.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

The last category we scored is long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this facility a grade of D in this category. Unfortunately, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home vaccinated 98.130844 percent of its residents, which is an above average percentage. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 7.46% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This measures the percentage of long-term care patients which suffered from pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 2.8% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure indicates the percent of long-term care patients who suffered a fall leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 1.49% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term patients which had urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 14.29% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 8.33% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who are given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 3.52% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 96.46% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 16.07% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Some experts argue this is a measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 13.05% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who retained mobility levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is vital to patients well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 13.05% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 12% of Patients

This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 88.1% of Resident

This is the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Spectrum Health Big Rapids HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.77 miles away605 Oak Street Big Rapids Michigan 49307Government - Local(231) 796-8691

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fmc - Big Rapids2.84 miles away14307 Northland Dr Big Rapids Michigan 49307Dialysis Stations: 12 (231) 527-1622

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=235459