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Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca

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Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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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

68.09% 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 C, 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

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. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that category, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

This nursing home's second worse category is long-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average score. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home vaccinated 96.954315 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable figure. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 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.

Facility Inspections

Grade: F

The final category we assessed is inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This dragged down this nursing home's overall grade significantly. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We would scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by CMS had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. Lastly, we also need to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines in recent years of more than $50,000. This usually signifies that inspectors became frustrated after multiple years of failed health inspections.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

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

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 8.87% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 2.93% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term patients that have sustained a fall leading to severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A-minus

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 2.23% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic could be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 13.4% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used for a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 19.66% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are generally used to treat patients suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 3.38% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 91.02% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 12.09% Percentage of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living 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

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 13.78% Percentage of Residents

This is the percent of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 1.65 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 13.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 11.28 Percentage of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In Altercare of Big Rapids Center for Rehab & Nursing Ca, 77.57% Percentage of Resident

This is the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with 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