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Bronson Commons

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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23332 Red Arrow Highway,
Mattawan MI 49071

(269) 283-5200

88.9% estimated occupancy 1

Bronson Commons is located in Mattawan, Michigan, a city with a total of 9,174 people. With an A- overall grade, we rated this nursing home in the top 25 percent of all facilities in the nation. We can't find many negative things to say about this place. Its ratings are just impeccable. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Corporation
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Podiatry
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Optometry
  • Audiology
  • Colostomy Care
  • Catheter Care
  • Radiation Therapy
  • Aquatic Therapy

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Michigan badge

Top Nursing Home in Michigan Awards 2021

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

On top of performing well overall, this nursing home received high marks in the category of short-term care as well. It received our highest score in that category with an A+. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is typically a fair measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing scores are primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a resident more often.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

The next area we rated proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it an acceptable grade of C for long-term care. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled nursing and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.807014 percent of its patients. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Bronson Commons Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Bronson Commons, 6.29% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-plus

In Bronson Commons, 0.44% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of residents that sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: F

In Bronson Commons, 6.64% of Patients had UTIs

This metric measures the percent of long-term patients which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indicator of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric can also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Bronson Commons, 21.08% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Bronson Commons, 18.89% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In Bronson Commons, 0.46% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Bronson Commons, 97.39% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In Bronson Commons, 15.17% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Bronson Commons, 18.14% of Residents

This tells you the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Bronson Commons, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Bronson Commons, 18.14% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-plus

In Bronson Commons, 9.59% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Bronson Commons, 61.97% of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Bronson Lakeview HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 6.18 miles away408 Hazen Street Paw Paw Michigan 49079Voluntary non-profit - Private(269) 657-1400
  • Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric HospitalPsychiatric 9.46 miles away1312 Oakland Dr Kalamazoo Michigan 49008Government - State(269) 337-3309
  • Bronson Methodist HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.64 miles away601 John Street Kalamazoo Michigan 49007Voluntary non-profit - Private(269) 341-6000
  • Ascension Borgess HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.04 miles away1521 Gull Road Kalamazoo Michigan 49048Voluntary non-profit - Other(269) 226-7000
  • Allegan General HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.9 miles away555 Linn Street Allegan Michigan 49010Voluntary non-profit - Other(269) 686-4101

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fmc - Oshtemo6.31 miles away6739 Seeco Dr Kalamazoo Michigan 49009CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (269) 375-5815
  • Fms Kalamazoo, LLC10.17 miles away12180 N Us Highway 131 Schoolcraft Michigan 49087Dialysis Stations: 4 (269) 679-3588
  • Davita - Kalamazoo Central10.59 miles away535 S Burdick St Ste 110 Kalamazoo Michigan 49007Dialysis Stations: 10 (269) 343-0251
  • Fmc - Kalamazoo10.99 miles away521 E Michigan Ave Kalamazoo Michigan 49007CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (269) 384-6180
  • Fmc - Kalamazoo Pd Unit10.99 miles away527 E Michigan Ave Kalamazoo Michigan 49007Dialysis Stations: 2 (269) 384-6191
  • Fmc - Kalamazoo East11.74 miles away2901 E Kilgore Rd Kalamazoo Michigan 49001CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (269) 345-1660
  • Fmc - Gull Road13.82 miles away5010 Gull Rd Suite 6 Kalamazoo Michigan 49048Dialysis Stations: 12 (269) 382-3012