Boulevard Temple Care Center
2567 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit MI 48208 · (313) 895-5340 · 93.06% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Boulevard Temple Care Center is located in the densely populated metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan with a population of 673,342 people. With an overall score of B-, this appears to be a respectable facility. Even in a city of 26 nursing homes, this nursing home looks like a respectable selection. One of the best aspects of this facility's report card is its stellar inspection grade, which we will address in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 124 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a favorable grade in short-term care. This nursing home earned a grade of B+ in this area, which turns out to be one of our better grades. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. It fared as well as just about any nursing home in Michigan in this metric with 62.4 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay patients are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses are caring for patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as minimizing major falls. This place performed admirably in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our last area, we gave this nursing home a D for the area of long-term care. This was the nursing home's least impressive category grade. Of course, this category pulled down the facility's overall grade to some degree. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.20812 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.7 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Boulevard Temple Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better