Calhoun County Medical Care Facility is an average-sized government-owned facility in Battle Creek, Michigan. This nursing home is a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the United States. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive profile is its nursing rating. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph
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Calhoun County Medical Care Facility
- Nursing Home
- Adult Day Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Government - County
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A. When calculating a facility's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 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 nursing home 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home was given high scores in the area of short-term care as well. In fact, it received one of our strongest scores in that category with a area of A. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is generally a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
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Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best grades. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's worst category was long-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of just D. We wanted to point out this potential area of weakness, however, you should not over-emphasize a single bad category either. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the data points we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.67846 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Calhoun County Medical Care Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 8.87% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 2.93% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are considered to be a measure 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 Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 2.23% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Closer supervision reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 13.4% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 19.66% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 3.38% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some argue this is a measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 91.02% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 12.09% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 13.78% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 1.65 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 13.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Calhoun County Medical Care Facility, 77.57% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a measure of rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Bronson Battle Creek HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.08 miles away300 North Avenue Battle Creek Michigan 49017Proprietary(269) 966-8000
- Oaklawn HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.95 miles away200 N Madison Marshall Michigan 49068Voluntary non-profit - Other(269) 781-4271
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Battle Creek Dialysis3.47 miles away220 Goodale Ave E Ste B Battle Creek Michigan 49037Dialysis Stations: 20 (269) 968-8401
- Fmc - Battle Creek North3.5 miles away233 Roosevelt Ave E Battle Creek Michigan 49037CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (269) 968-8860
- Fmc - Battle Creek South5.08 miles away2845 Capital Ave Sw Ste 104 Battle Creek Michigan 49015Dialysis Stations: 17 (269) 979-8865
- Oaklawn Dialysis Center9.06 miles away310 E Michigan Ave Marshall Michigan 49068Dialysis Stations: 8 (269) 789-7023
- Oaklawn Dialysis Center of Albion, LLC19.24 miles away350 B Dr N Albion Michigan 49224Dialysis Stations: 16 (517) 654-1010