Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills is in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This proved to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B+. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the nation. The best aspect of this facility's impressive report card is its short-term care score. We discuss short-term care in the next section
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Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills
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Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Meal Delivery
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Short-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. This is as good as it gets in this area. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing scores are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Facility Inspections
Another area of strength for this facility is in inspections. Inspections proved to be one of its best categories. In that area, we awarded this facility a B. Inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we scored is this facility's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still awarded it an acceptable grade of C for our long-term care category. Our long-term care grade is typically used to assess a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills, 8.87% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills, 2.93% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills, 2.23% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better nursing care can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills, 13.4% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills, 19.66% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term patients that are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills, 3.38% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents demonstrating signs of depression. Some believe this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills, 91.02% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills, 12.09% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a resident's medical condition.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills, 11.28 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Care and Rehabilitation Center at Glacier Hills, 77.57% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation services.
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