Beaconshire Nursing Centre

With over 20 facilities to choose from in Detroit, Michigan, Beaconshire Nursing Centre is one of the multitude of facilities here. This nursing home was given an overall score of F. Based on our assessment, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. We were surprised to find that this facility actually received one decent category grade for inspections, which you can read more about below.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This place was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating and that actually turned out to be its second highest score. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This facility provided just 2.5 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility was above average in two of the datapoints we focus on, with good scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

In addition, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the category of long-term care. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 48.972607 percent of its residents. This is quite a bit less than average. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was also disappointing. Here we found that this facility had 2.25 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.

The last area we graded is short-term care. It received an F in this category, which is a poor grade. Short-term care grades are typically employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this place offers far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 19.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.