Cambridge North Healthcare Center

Cambridge North Healthcare Center is the sole option we identified in Clawson, Michigan. This nursing home received an overall score of F. In our view, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is short-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

We couldn't find anything positive to say about this place. It received just a D in the area of short-term care. Sadly, this proved to be its best category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. In this place's case, we found that it provides far less registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. Given its score in this category, this did not surprise us. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 42 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing rating is primarily based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our long-term care grade. This is not a very good score. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.18768 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.32 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is far less favorable than its vaccination record.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. For places with bad inspection ratings, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular nursing home was assessed a category J or K deficiency, which rank among the worst categories of deficiencies. This generally means that inspectors uncovered a deficiency which places patient health or safety in immediate danger. Finally, we also need to point out that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This usually signifies that a bad performance spanned multiple years.