Burcham Hills Retirement Center is located in East Lansing, Michigan. The city has a total of 63,898 people. With an overall score of B, this nursing home ended up being a slightly superior option to the average nursing home in East Lansing. You can definitely do much worse than this facility. Fortunately, this place did not have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.
Burcham Hills Retirement Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
On top of earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home also earned an elite short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of A. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more critical for individuals needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an A. Our nursing score considers a number of factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a solid score in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of B-. In the area of long-term care, we analyze the quantity of services provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Facility Inspections
Moving on to the final category of inspections, this was not one of this facility's better grades. Inspection grades are based on a facility's recent government inspections. We gave this facility a C in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This place was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates this facility avoided the more significant categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Burcham Hills Retirement Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 8.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents who have new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 2.9% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 2.36% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often the result of nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 13.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to patients for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 18.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 3.44% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 91.43% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 12.1% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 17.7% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 1.47 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 17.7 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 10.81 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Burcham Hills Retirement Center, 77.3% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements.
Scores for East Lansing, MI
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus
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