Boulevard Manor

Boulevard Manor is an average-sized nursing home in Detroit, Michigan. This nursing home turns out to be a middle of the pack facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our assessment, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. One of the better aspects of this facility's profile is its impressive nursing rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.

The main thing propping up this nursing home's profile is its elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this nursing home an A- in that category. Our nursing grade assesses many subcategories, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also gave this nursing home a favorable score in short-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B in this area, which is one of our more favorable grades. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It was respectable in this area with 47.7 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also received a decent inspection grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This nursing home had 15 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled J through L. This indicates inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to put patient safety or health in imminent harm or jeopardy. In the bigger picture, this inspection report could be much worse.

The last area we rated was long-term care, was this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated only 48.314606 percent of its residents against pneumonia. The last datapoint we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 1.98 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is a higher hospitalization rate than the average nursing home, but it is not quite as bad as we feared it might be.