Belle Fountain Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

Belle Fountain Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Wyandotte, Michigan. This is a very respectable facility. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable score. At the end of the day, this place is a solid choice for most people. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which we will address in the next section.

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this facility also earned first-rate health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in this area, with an A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility performed well in our short-term care category. Indeed, we gave it a score of A- for that area, which turns out to be one of our most elite grades. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 65.4 percent of its patients returning home.

The third area we graded is long-term care. This nursing home was given an above average long-term care grade, with a B in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination statistics was first-rate as well. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 3.87 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as strong as some of its other scores in this category, this number may be skewed for some nursing homes due to some of the medical complexity of patients.

The next category we rated is nursing. This nursing home received a C in this area. Nursing ratings are mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which was among the higher totals we found. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this metric.