Cass County Medical Care Facil
23770 Hospital St, Cassopolis MI 49031 · (269) 228-4000 · 90.12% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Cass County Medical Care Facil is an average-sized government-owned nursing home in Cassopolis, Michigan. This facility was given an A- overall, which is among the highest grades that we offer. A score in this range requires excellent marks across the board. We can't find many negative things to say about this nursing home. Its scores are as good as they get. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 80 Beds
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Government - County
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this facility also received nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A+. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 4.7 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is among the more impressive figures in the nation. Finally, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also fared very well in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Not many nursing homes fared better in this area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This place performed respectably in this metric with 47.5 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we scored is long-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. Even though this ended up being its poorest category rating, this is nevertheless not a poor grade. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination statistics are better than most nursing homes as well. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 99.6139 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.62 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cass County Medical Care Facil Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term residents which sustained falls leading to severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
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 metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better