Burcham Hills Retirement Center
2700 Burcham Drive, East Lansing MI 48823 · (517) 351-8377 · 85.71% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Burcham Hills Retirement Center is located in East Lansing, Michigan, a city with a population of 63,898 people. Our rating system was not kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall score of F. If you are not happy with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in East Lansing. The city has just three other nursing homes. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was nursing, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 133 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While this nursing home's overall score was terrible, it didn't perform as poorly in the area of nursing. In fact, we gave it a B- for this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is better than average. In calculating our grades, we add more weight to hours performed by more highly skilled nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Short-term Care Quality
Surprisingly, we awarded this facility a B- for its short-term care score, which really isn't a bad grade. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. One reason for this nursing home's strong score in this category is that it provides more care from registered nurses than the average nursing home. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It fared well in this area with 73.8 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility's next best category is long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.66777 percent of its patients, which is better than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.44 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Facility Inspections
Turning our last area of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. Since this information is collected by government inspectors, we heavily weight negative feedback in this area. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We would scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Burcham Hills Retirement 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